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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is it possible to acquire savant skills?
(a) One can only be born that way.
(b) By concentrating on one side of the brain.
(c) Through illness or injury to the brain.
(d) Through a type of hypnosis.

2. When Daniel's father was just a child, what was his main chore in life?
(a) Cooking dinner every evening.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Making his bed every morning.
(d) Bringing up his younger siblings.

3. In secondary school, how did Daniel spend his playground or recess time?
(a) In the teacher's lounge.
(b) Out on the playground.
(c) Receiving extra tutoring in handwriting.
(d) In the library, reading.

4. During conversations, Daniel finds it difficult to:
(a) Stay on topic.
(b) Speak loudly.
(c) Think.
(d) Smile.

5. Daniel was once looking at his favorite book during story time. What did he begin to do that had everyone looking at him?
(a) Walk away.
(b) Read the book aloud.
(c) Spin around.
(d) Hum to himself.

6. How did Daniel mix with other children his age?
(a) He was sociable.
(b) He scared them off.
(c) He was the life of the party.
(d) He was a loner.

7. What was Daniel intrigued with in nursery school?
(a) Other children's faces.
(b) Textures on the ground.
(c) Music.
(d) Lights.

8. At the age of eleven, Daniel was fascinated by the complexity of history. What did he create that involved history?
(a) A timeline of historical facts dating from 800 B.C.
(b) A way for people to memorize a large number of historical facts.
(c) A computer program for historians.
(d) His own world of made-up historical figures and facts.

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

10. Who in Daniel's family had also suffered from epilepsy?
(a) His mother's father.
(b) His father's father.
(c) His maternal aunt.
(d) His father's brother.

11. What sort of card game does Daniel invent in his room at home?
(a) A new game of rummy.
(b) Poker solitaire.
(c) Solitaire using prime numbers.
(d) Solitaire with three decks of cards.

12. About how many children in Britain with an autistic spectrum disorder develop a certain type of epilepsy by adolescence?
(a) A third.
(b) Nearly none.
(c) One percent.
(d) Half.

13. To Daniel, one of the most important things in school was:
(a) Sports Day.
(b) Predictability.
(c) The lunch program.
(d) His friends.

14. What numerical calculation is Daniel's favorite type to do?
(a) Power multiplication.
(b) Finding least common denominators.
(c) Geometric equations.
(d) Algebraic equations.

15. What health issue did Daniel's grandfather have?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Multiple sclerosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the reasons Daniel Tammet wrote this memoir?

2. What is one method Daniel's parents teach him to use to cope with his emotions?

3. What sensory feeling disturbed Daniel?

4. Daniel developed a love for a certain type of story as a child. These were:

5. What does Daniel do to compensate for his lack of friends?

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