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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Daniel like so much about the books he piled up in his room?
(a) They had numbers on them.
(b) The stories were interesting.
(c) The pictures were nice.
(d) The ink was black.

4. In Chapter 5, what does Daniel describe as his overwhelming feeling at the time?
(a) Anger.
(b) Regret.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Loneliness.

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

6. A brilliant painter who suffered from seizures was:
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Monet.
(c) Manet.
(d) Van Gogh.

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

8. What made Daniel stop playing in chess tournaments?
(a) He became bored.
(b) It was too easy for him to win most of the time.
(c) He would lose if distracted or if something unexpected happened.
(d) There was not enough money in it.

9. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?
(a) He coped very well.
(b) He loved it there and refused to go home.
(c) His anxieties made him return home early.
(d) He cried every night.

10. What alphabet first prompted Daniel's interest in different languages?
(a) The Arabic alphabet.
(b) The Phoenician alphabet.
(c) The Greek alphabet.
(d) The Hebrew alphabet.

11. What type of epilepsy was Daniel diagnosed with?
(a) Simple partial.
(b) Frontal lobe.
(c) Reflex.
(d) Temporal lobe.

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

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

14. What item did Daniel break in school that cost him a letter of apology and his parents' money?
(a) Plates in the lunchroom.
(b) The class door window.
(c) The teacher's glass apple.
(d) His desk.

15. A famous Russian writer who had a form of temporal lobe epilepsy was:
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Lermontov.
(c) Andreyev.
(d) Chekhov.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel talks to himself, it helps him in what way?

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

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

4. At the age of two, where did Daniel begin to go on a daily basis?

5. How did Daniel spend a lot of his time in the house on Blithbury Road?

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