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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Professor Alan Snyder believes that autistic thought is:

2. What was the first foreign language that Daniel learned from a neighbor?

3. Many people on the autistic spectrum are very good at processing information in parts instead of holistically. This explains why Daniels is so good at:

4. What was Daniel's oldest brother named?

5. What illness struck Daniel's father when Daniel was ten years old?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Daniel began secondary school, why did he go to the library during recess and eat lunch alone?

2. Why was Daniel able to score so well on weekly vocabulary or spelling tests?

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

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

5. What led Daniel to make up his imaginary friend, Anne?

6. Why did the workers at the nursery school Daniel attended not try very hard to make him play with the other children?

7. Why did Daniel never get to meet his paternal grandfather?

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

9. Daniel had issues with brushing his teeth. What was his problem and how did he solve it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel was part of a large family. Did this in any way help him? How? What might he have learned from his siblings? What could he have taught them?

Essay Topic 2

Although he doesn't go into great detail about it, Daniel was teased and bullied throughout school. What sort of things probably happened to him? How does he cope with the bullying? Does he believe it had an effect on his personality?

Essay Topic 3

Consider Daniel's imaginary friend, Anne.

1) Why did he need to make her and others up in his mind?

2) How real does it seem that they appear to be to him?

3) Why does he have Anne leave him and say she is dying?

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