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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Daniel interview for and not receive?
(a) A library position.
(b) A translator.
(c) An English tutor.
(d) A social worker.

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

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

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

5. 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) Any noises slowed him down.
(d) The numbers are visual to him and recitation is verbal.

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

7. What was Daniel's mood like on the flight to California?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Enthusiastic.
(d) Terrified.

8. Who is Kim Peek?
(a) The real-life inspiration behind the Rain Man character.
(b) The main scientist working on savant syndrome.
(c) The producer of the documentary being made about Daniel.
(d) The helpful flight attendant Daniel met on the plane.

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

10. How did Daniel's family react to Brainman when it was shown in Britain?
(a) Compassionately.
(b) They did not watch it.
(c) Negatively.
(d) Positively.

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

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

13. Who is Daniel's landlord in his Lithuanian apartment building?
(a) John.
(b) Jonas.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Jeremiah.

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

15. Where does the name "pi" come from?
(a) The Museum of the History of Mathematics.
(b) The Greek mathematician, Archimedes.
(c) The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
(d) The word for "irrational number" in Russian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is Daniel learning when the book is being written?

2. What does the National Autistic Society in England suggest as a fairer alternative to a job interview for autistic people?

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

4. How does Daniel feel about having met with Kim Peek?

5. Why did Daniel decide to publicly recite as many digits in the number pi as he could to beat a record?

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