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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 did Daniel like so much about the books he piled up in his room?
(a) The stories were interesting.
(b) They had numbers on them.
(c) The pictures were nice.
(d) The ink was black.

2. What does Daniel consider his first language to be?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Spanish
(d) English.

3. How is Daniel trained for his volunteer assignment?
(a) Fun activities, foreign language lessons, and films.
(b) Teamwork, lectures, and group discussion.
(c) Film, lectures, and fieldwork.
(d) Lectures.

4. Daniel makes his first friend in primary school. What is his name?
(a) Babak.
(b) Neil.
(c) Bob.
(d) Birut.

5. Why did Daniel's parents have to clear the floor in his room at night, leave a hall light, on and put a gate at the top of the stairs?
(a) Daniel sometimes walked in his sleep.
(b) So his brother, Lee, would not get hurt.
(c) Daniel liked everything clean and well-lit and closed up at night.
(d) For home security purposes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did William John Edward's wife divorce him?

2. Why did the Tammet family need to bargain hunt in charity shops and do their own home repairs?

3. When he feels very stressed, what does Daniel do?

4. Where does the name "pi" come from?

5. Professor Ramachandran theorizes that language emerged:

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