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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten, A Very Large Slice of Pi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dream did Daniel have the night before his public recitation of pi?
(a) He was walking among his pi number landscapes.
(b) He lost his concentration during the recitation.
(c) There were too many people watching him at the recitation.
(d) He was lost walking in Oxford.

2. What mathematical chess problem does Daniel diagram in detail in his book?
(a) Check.
(b) Castling.
(c) Checkmate.
(d) Knight's Tour.

3. Why doesn't Daniel take notes during his training?
(a) He loses his pen.
(b) He can remember everything.
(c) He cannot understand much of it.
(d) He does take notes.

4. What does Daniel do to compensate for his lack of friends?
(a) He plays with his siblings.
(b) He creates imaginary ones.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He writes in journals.

5. Why is learning new languages easier if you already know more than one?
(a) Your brain is in a receptive mode.
(b) Each language is a separate color in your mind.
(c) All languages have the same syntax rules.
(d) Languages belong to "families" of related, similar languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the school play that Daniel's friend had a leading role in?

2. Who is Daniel's landlord in his Lithuanian apartment building?

3. What sort of card game does Daniel invent in his room at home?

4. Daniel cried to get inside a bookstore because of a certain book. What was it?

5. How does Daniel best learn new languages?

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