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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the German boy that Daniel wanted to be closer to in secondary school?
(a) Johan.
(b) Herman.
(c) Hans.
(d) Jens.

2. Why did Daniel's parents have to clear the floor in his room at night, leave a hall light, on and put a gate at the top of the stairs?
(a) So his brother, Lee, would not get hurt.
(b) For home security purposes.
(c) Daniel sometimes walked in his sleep.
(d) Daniel liked everything clean and well-lit and closed up at night.

3. Who are Daniel's heroes?
(a) His parents.
(b) All of his teachers.
(c) He has no heroes.
(d) The characters in his books.

4. What illness struck Daniel's father when Daniel was ten years old?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) A mental breakdown.
(d) Epilepsy.

5. What is the name of the school play that Daniel's friend had a leading role in?
(a) Mary Poppins.
(b) A Christmas Carol.
(c) West Side Story.
(d) Sweeney Todd.

6. What was Daniel's oldest brother named?
(a) Simon.
(b) Peter.
(c) Paul.
(d) Lee.

7. When Daniel's father returned home after a long hospitalization, how did the family celebrate?
(a) They all gave him welcome home gifts.
(b) They went out for dinner.
(c) They did not have a celebration.
(d) They had a house party.

8. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?
(a) Emotions.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish
(d) Numbers.

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

10. How was Daniel's development as a child with walking and speaking?
(a) Severely delayed.
(b) No one was sure.
(c) Gifted.
(d) Age-appropriate.

11. How many languages does Daniel know?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

12. Who taught Daniel how to play chess when Daniel was thirteen?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) Rehan.
(d) His brother, Lee.

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

14. Daniel cried to get inside a bookstore because of a certain book. What was it?
(a) Mr. Men.
(b) Pippi Longstocking.
(c) The Little Engine That Could.
(d) Thomas the Tank Engine.

15. What made Daniel groggy at times and sensitive to sunlight?
(a) His lack of a good night's sleep.
(b) His seizures.
(c) The lack of vegetables in his diet.
(d) His medication for epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Daniel's rare condition known as?

2. Daniel makes his first friend in primary school. What is his name?

3. When Daniel's class watched the program Dark Towers, Daniel realized that he was:

4. What is Daniel's condition concerning epilepsy now?

5. One of the school tasks that Daniel found most difficult was:

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