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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. What does Temple say she hides?
(a) Her fear
(b) Food
(c) Students clothes
(d) Money

2. Why is Temple surprised that she is invited to the reunion?
(a) She has no friends from the school
(b) She is a loner
(c) She was hated as a child
(d) She was a bizarre child

3. What does the psychiatrist think autistics have suffered?
(a) A difficult birth
(b) Drug abuse during the mother's pregnancy
(c) A blow to the head
(d) A psychic injury

4. What does Temple's mother ask her to put on?
(a) Her hat
(b) Her ring
(c) Her necklace
(d) Her dress

5. What is the name of the camp counselor?
(a) Nan
(b) Doris
(c) Tony
(d) Harry

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of world does Temple say she lived in as a child?

2. Who does Rimland write about?

3. Why does Temple's mother lose control of the car?

4. How does Rimland stop Temple from being loud?

5. What does Temple try to do with the hat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Temple need pressure stimulation on her body?

2. What does Temple's mother's letter say about her mother's character and feelings towards her daughter?

3. Why does Temple think she excels at creative subjects?

4. Why is Temple surprised that she is invited back to her old school in Vermont?

5. What does Bernard Rimland note about Temple's autism in the foreword?

6. What causes autism?

7. In what way does Temple process information differently from other children?

8. How does Temple cope at private school?

9. How does Temple get into trouble at Summer camp?

10. What impresses Rimland about Temple?

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