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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. When Daniel went alone to Nantes in France for ten days to stay with a French family, how did he cope?
(a) He loved it there and refused to go home.
(b) He coped very well.
(c) He cried every night.
(d) His anxieties made him return home early.

2. What is Daniel's apartment like in the new country where he volunteers?
(a) Decrepit.
(b) Spacious.
(c) Newly built.
(d) Tiny.

3. How does the narrator know that he was born on a Wednesday?
(a) His mother reminds him of this.
(b) A physician told him.
(c) The date is blue in his mind and Wednesdays are always blue.
(d) He looked up the date on a calendar.

4. One of the school tasks that Daniel found most difficult was:
(a) Doing math.
(b) Singing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing letters and words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Daniel trained for his volunteer assignment?

2. Daniel was once looking at his favorite book during story time. What did he begin to do that had everyone looking at him?

3. What is Daniel's rare condition known as?

4. What does Daniel do to compensate for his lack of friends?

5. When Daniel's class watched the program Dark Towers, Daniel realized that he was:

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