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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Daniel get to play the lead role in a school play when the actor got ill?

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

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

4. What was Daniel's oldest brother named?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Professor Allan Snyder believes that savant abilities may be in everyone. How does he feel that Daniels abilities were unlocked?

2. Why doesn't Daniel remember or notice the names or faces of fellow classmates in nursery school?

3. Why did Daniel's brothers and sisters play "games" with him such as ironing clothes and collecting books around the house to categorize?

4. In what ways does Daniel compare himself to Raymond Babbitt of the movie, Rain Man?

5. Why did some of the children in primary school call Daniel a crybaby?

6. Other boys teased and bullied Daniel. What eventually made them stop?

7. How did Daniel's mother cope when his father entered a psychiatric hospital?

8. Why didn't learning in class come easily to Daniel?

9. What is synesthesia and how does it affect Daniel?

10. Daniel sees days and dates in a certain way. How does he see his birth date as a certain color?

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