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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, Adolescence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Tammet family moved several times. One of the homes was located:
(a) Next door to the school bully.
(b) Just across the road from the ice cream store.
(c) Just across the street from his school.
(d) Down the street from where his father worked.

2. During grade school Daniel longs for:
(a) A friend.
(b) Excitement.
(c) A part-time job.
(d) Better teachers.

3. What is synesthesia?
(a) A disease whereby one's limbs fall asleep.
(b) A form of deep depression.
(c) An extremely rare form of schizophrenia.
(d) A rare neurological mixing of the senses.

4. By what quality can Daniel recognize every prime number up to 9,973?
(a) Their rounded shapes.
(b) Their interesting color.
(c) Their "pebble-like" quality.
(d) Their "dagger-like" quality.

5. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?
(a) Her husband had cheated on her and she felt she had no choice.
(b) She did not have long to live and wanted her husband to remarry.
(c) She was in love with someone else.
(d) Doctors told her to move on because of her husband's mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel's father took a different route to nursery school one morning, how did Daniel react?

2. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?

3. Who in Daniel's family had also suffered from epilepsy?

4. What is Asperger's Syndrome?

5. What two tests were given Daniel to diagnosis his epilepsy?

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