Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Test | Final Test - Easy

Daniel Tammet
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Test | Final Test - Easy

Daniel Tammet
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kim Peek's father, Fran, tell Daniel to say to Kim upon meeting him?
(a) "Tell him you like this library."
(b) "Ask him about pi."
(c) "Give him your birth date."
(d) "Ask him if he is a savant, too."

3. How was Daniel's verbal practice of pi recitation frustrating for him?
(a) He did not like speaking out loud.
(b) The digits were long and his voice grew tired.
(c) The numbers are visual to him and recitation is verbal.
(d) Any noises slowed him down.

4. Why is learning new languages easier if you already know more than one?
(a) All languages have the same syntax rules.
(b) Languages belong to "families" of related, similar languages.
(c) Each language is a separate color in your mind.
(d) Your brain is in a receptive mode.

5. When Daniel is interrupted during the interview with a question, what is his first reaction?
(a) He plugs up his ears.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Fear.
(d) Silence.

6. Why does Daniel let Neil shave his face for him?
(a) He cannot hold a razor comfortably in hands.
(b) He cannot be trusted with a razor.
(c) He would otherwise grow a very long beard.
(d) He finds the sensations too irritating to do it comfortably himself.

7. How did anyone know if Daniel was reciting pi correctly?
(a) There were checkers to be sure he was.
(b) Neil was keeping track from the audience.
(c) There was no way to know.
(d) The numbers were flashed on a screen behind Daniel.

8. Why does Daniel say people are surprised when he tells them he is a Christian?
(a) He dislikes being with too many other people.
(b) They believe being autistic makes abstract thought too difficult.
(c) His thought process is too logical.
(d) He was not brought up Christian.

9. Where is Daniel assigned to go as a volunteer?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Africa.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Lithuania.

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

11. What happens to Jay in 2004?
(a) She dies.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She becomes litter trained.
(d) She has kittens.

12. How does Daniel feel about having met with Kim Peek?
(a) It is one of the happiest moments of his life.
(b) It is depressing that Kim cannot care for himself.
(c) He wishes Kim lived in England.
(d) He is upset that Kim cannot converse better with him.

13. Why did Daniel decide to publicly recite as many digits in the number pi as he could to beat a record?
(a) To raise money for autism research.
(b) To raise money for the National Society for Epilepsy.
(c) To impress Neil.
(d) For a documentary he was making.

14. Who meets Daniel at the airport on his return trip to London?
(a) Lee.
(b) Rehan.
(c) Babak.
(d) Neil.

15. What is Daniel's assignment for the volunteer organization?
(a) Social worker.
(b) English teacher.
(c) Math teacher.
(d) Farming instruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the city in Iceland that Daniel must go to?

2. What conversational tactic has Daniel used over the years that does not work well within his relationship with Neil?

3. How many digits of pi was Daniel able to recite to beat the record?

4. What is Daniel's main role as a volunteer in Lithuania?

5. How did Daniel have to prove that he had learned Icelandic in four days?

(see the answer keys)

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