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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 is the Feynman point in pi?
(a) It is pi to 707 decimal points.
(b) Where the digit 9 repeats itself eleven times, with other numbers in between.
(c) It is the last string of digits in pi.
(d) The decimal places of 999999.

2. Daniel cried to get inside a bookstore because of a certain book. What was it?
(a) The Little Engine That Could.
(b) Thomas the Tank Engine.
(c) Pippi Longstocking.
(d) Mr. Men.

3. About how many children in Britain with an autistic spectrum disorder develop a certain type of epilepsy by adolescence?
(a) One percent.
(b) A third.
(c) Nearly none.
(d) Half.

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

5. Daniel overcame many of his difficulties learning things as a child because of
(a) His epilepsy.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Corporal punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel's father returned home after a long hospitalization, how did the family celebrate?

2. What is one of the reasons Daniel Tammet wrote this memoir?

3. What was Daniel's favorite shape?

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?

5. How did Daniel's parents describe his personality to others?

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