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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. Six months after meeting Neil, what does Daniel do?
(a) Leaves him.
(b) Goes to work for him.
(c) Moves in with him.
(d) Tells his parents about him.

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

3. What type of language does Daniel find most confusing because of his Asperger's?
(a) Foreign language.
(b) Semantic language.
(c) Idiomatic language.
(d) Symbolic language.

4. Why does Daniel's brother, Steven, require a lot of help from his family?
(a) He has Asperger's Syndrome.
(b) He has leukemia.
(c) He has a rare disease.
(d) He is severely autistic.

5. What skill did Professor Ramachandran first ask Daniel to demonstrate for him and his team?
(a) Recitation of pi.
(b) Conversational skills.
(c) Calculations in his head.
(d) Calendar calculations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is amazing about the way in which Kim Peek can read a book and memorize it?

2. What is the Feynman point in pi?

3. Why is learning new languages easier if you already know more than one?

4. Where is Daniel assigned to go as a volunteer?

5. Why are nouns Daniel's favorite parts of speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. During his training for Volunteer Services, what were the main learning goals for Daniel and the class?

2. How did Daniel prepare himself for the airplane flight to California?

3. When Daniel returns to his family's new home after a year in Lithuania, why must he readjust to living there?

4. Why did Daniel spend his first weekend in Kaunas inside his new apartment?

5. What locations in Iceland fascinated Daniel the most? Why?

6. Why does Daniel want to do a fundraiser for the Epilepsy Society?

7. What were some of the biggest concerns about Daniel's involvement with the documentary and how did he overcome them?

8. Why is Daniel so enthralled with pi?

9. Why was Daniel unhappy and somewhat anxious when the producers first revealed to him their choice of language he would learn?

10. Why did Daniel think about creating his own private language when he was young?

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