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
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did Daniel meet with Kim Peek?
(a) New York.
(b) Salt Lake City.
(c) Seattle.
(d) San Diego.

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

3. How has love changed Daniel?
(a) He is more dependent upon others.
(b) He has learned that he can never live alone again.
(c) It has made him aware of jealousy and other bad feelings.
(d) It has made him more open to others and the world around him.

4. Whose photo does Daniel keep on the dresser in his kitchen?
(a) His nephew's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) Neil's.
(d) His brother's.

5. Why are nouns Daniel's favorite parts of speech?
(a) They have a mathematical element.
(b) The tense does not change.
(c) They are easiest for him to visualize.
(d) They are the easiest words to learn.

6. Why did Daniel have mixed feelings about the documentary producers filming him in Las Vegas?
(a) He did want to trivialize his abilities.
(b) It was too hot for him there.
(c) He felt it would be gaudy and tacky there.
(d) He did not like large crowds.

7. How was Daniel able to win at Blackjack?
(a) Pure luck.
(b) Cheating.
(c) Playing instinctively.
(d) Counting cards.

8. What American television show did Daniel appear on after the broadcasting of the documentary he was in?
(a) The Tonight Show.
(b) The Today Show.
(c) The View.
(d) Late Show with David Letterman.

9. What caused Daniel to be interested in learning Spanish?
(a) A conversation with Neil's mother about Spain.
(b) Neil spoke the language.
(c) He was about to take a trip to Mexico.
(d) A television show he watched that was in Spanish.

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

11. How does Daniel view a sequence of numbers in his head?
(a) He imagines the numbers as food and beach pebbles.
(b) He sees numbers and their shapes, leaving out the annoying ones.
(c) He sees colors, shapes, and textures that form landscapes.
(d) He hears the numbers and sees lights that form a portrait.

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

13. What sort of questions does Daniel discover Kim Peek likes to be asked most of all?
(a) Film history.
(b) Scientific data.
(c) Historical dates and figures.
(d) Mathematical.

14. How many hours did it take Daniel to publicly recite pi?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

15. Who becomes Daniel's closest friend in Lithuania?
(a) BirutÄ—.
(b) Neil.
(c) Inga.
(d) Olga.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Daniel's challenge in Iceland reduced in time?

2. Why is learning new languages easier if you already know more than one?

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

4. Why does Daniel let Neil shave his face for him?

5. What is the last challenge the documentary makers have for Daniel?

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