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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 social worker.
(b) A library position.
(c) A translator.
(d) An English tutor.

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

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

4. 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 numbers and their shapes, leaving out the annoying ones.
(d) He sees colors, shapes, and textures that form landscapes.

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

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

7. What is the last challenge the documentary makers have for Daniel?
(a) To recite pi publicly.
(b) To return to Lithuania and speak about himself.
(c) To begin a language website.
(d) To learn a new language in one week.

8. What is Daniel's favorite rock group?
(a) Red Hot Chili Peppers.
(b) Death Cab for Cutie.
(c) The Fray.
(d) The Beatles.

9. How is Daniel trained for his volunteer assignment?
(a) Lectures.
(b) Fun activities, foreign language lessons, and films.
(c) Film, lectures, and fieldwork.
(d) Teamwork, lectures, and group discussion.

10. To what Lithuanian city was Daniel assigned to volunteer?
(a) Kaunas.
(b) Kretinga.
(c) Palanga.
(d) Visaginas.

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

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

13. What language is Daniel learning when the book is being written?
(a) Icelandic.
(b) Russian.
(c) Korean.
(d) Welsh.

14. What method do many pi enthusiasts use to memorize pi's infinite string of digits?
(a) Sentences using words with the number of letters in each successive pi digit.
(b) A method incorporating language and math.
(c) Mathematical strings which always equate to a number of pi digits.
(d) Memorization of the numbers by recitation only.

15. Why doesn't Daniel take notes during his training?
(a) He does take notes.
(b) He loses his pen.
(c) He can remember everything.
(d) He cannot understand much of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel sees a tarakona in his kitchen. What is that?

2. How did anyone know if Daniel was reciting pi correctly?

3. What is the documentary about Daniel titled?

4. What is Iceland's literacy rate?

5. What type of language does Daniel find most confusing because of his Asperger's?

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