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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. In Chapter 6, Daniel goes into detail to explain a certain mathematical topic. Which topic is that?
(a) Factoring.
(b) Probability.
(c) Multiplication.
(d) Prime numbers.

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

3. Who did Daniel eat his lunch with on the first day of secondary school?
(a) He did not eat that day.
(b) He ate with Barak.
(c) He ate at a table alone.
(d) He found the teacher's lounge and ate with the teachers.

4. 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) So his brother, Lee, would not get hurt.
(b) For home security purposes.
(c) Daniel sometimes walked in his sleep.
(d) Daniel liked everything clean and well-lit and closed up at night.

5. A game Daniel played with his siblings involved collecting books. What did they do with books?
(a) They built towers with them.
(b) They organized them as a library would.
(c) They donated them to libraries.
(d) They read them to one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daniel view a sequence of numbers in his head?

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

3. At the age of eleven, Daniel was fascinated by the complexity of history. What did he create that involved history?

4. How many hours did it take Daniel to publicly recite pi?

5. What has Daniel's brother, Steven, been diagnosed with?

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