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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Esperanto?
(a) The esoteric language used in Wales.
(b) Daniel's made-up language.
(c) A blend of many languages with logical grammar.
(d) A Spanish dialect.

2. What is the name of the city in Iceland that Daniel must go to?
(a) Akranes.
(b) Dalvik.
(c) Grindavik.
(d) Reykjavik.

3. What types of words does Daniel find most difficult?
(a) Adjectives.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Adverbs.
(d) Abstract words.

4. What is amazing about the way in which Kim Peek can read a book and memorize it?
(a) He reads two pages simultaneously, one with each eye.
(b) He can skim through a page in thirty seconds.
(c) He reads from the bottom up.
(d) He reads only the middle sections.

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

6. How does Daniel best learn new languages?
(a) Visually.
(b) By listening to it spoken.
(c) From watching television.
(d) By playing Scrabble with the foreign letters.

7. What is the name of the educational website for learning language that Neil and Daniel created?
(a) Eniac.
(b) Manti.
(c) Optimnem.
(d) Mnemosyne.

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

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

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

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

12. Professor Ramachandran theorizes that language emerged:
(a) From an agreement to create neologisms.
(b) Using visual learning aids.
(c) From synesthetic connections in the brain.
(d) Originally from mathematics.

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

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

15. Six months after meeting Neil, what does Daniel do?
(a) Tells his parents about him.
(b) Leaves him.
(c) Goes to work for him.
(d) Moves in with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Daniel help with advice on learning Romanian?

2. Some scientists believe that metaphors may be the result of:

3. When Daniel is interrupted during the interview with a question, what is his first reaction?

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

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

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