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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. What was the date when Alan passed his driving test?

2. How many packages of gum did Alan bring Kelly from the drugstore?

3. What day did Alan go back to work as a trust officer?

4. How much could reentry counseling have cost?

5. How many hours of day sessions of therapy did the HMO agree to pay for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was TBI labeled the "hidden disability"?

2. Why did Cathy have a terrible time during her birthday dinner?

3. What was Cathy's routine with Alan the first weeks he was home?

4. How did Alan react to the stress of traveling to Mexico?

5. Describe Gage before and after his accident.

6. How did Cathy feel when she took Alan home from Magee?

7. What analogy did a neuropsychologist use to describe what happened in a brain after frontal lobe damage?

8. How was Phineas Gage injured?

9. Why was a will chosen for Alan's first work-related job?

10. What strange pocket of speech deficits went undiagnosed at Magee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cathy mentioned how she missed the old Alan. Discuss the old and the new Alan and why Cathy felt like she had a new husband.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss reduplicative paramnesia and how it affected Alan and other TBI sufferers.

Essay Topic 3

Alan kicked Kelly in a movie theater when she made him angry. Discuss how Alan treated Kelly.

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