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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what experiment did Daniel participate with Dr. Gary Morgan in 2005?
(a) Reacting to bird song.
(b) Learning British sign language.
(c) Emotional language.
(d) Synesthetic connections.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours did it take Daniel to publicly recite pi?

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

3. What types of words does Daniel find most difficult?

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

5. Six months after meeting Neil, what does Daniel do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Daniel's relationship with words?

2. When Daniel goes on an interview for a library position, why does he most likely not get the job?

3. What had Daniel learned during his year in Kaunas?

4. How did Daniel prepare himself for the airplane flight to California?

5. How is Daniel's partner, Neil, similar to Daniel?

6. Why was Daniel unhappy and somewhat anxious when the producers first revealed to him their choice of language he would learn?

7. Why does Daniel want to do a fundraiser for the Epilepsy Society?

8. Why did the involvement in a documentary about his story make Daniel think it was the opportunity of a lifetime?

9. Why did Daniel think about creating his own private language when he was young?

10. Why did Daniel spend his first weekend in Kaunas inside his new apartment?

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