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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. 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.

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

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

4. When Daniel has an interview with the Voluntary Services Overseas organization, what is his main goal in doing so?
(a) He is not sure.
(b) Becoming more independent.
(c) Spreading Christianity.
(d) To avoid going to university.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daniel meet his partner, Neil?

2. What is the name of the educational website for learning language that Neil and Daniel created?

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

4. How does Daniel view a sequence of numbers in his head?

5. What was Daniel's mood like on the flight to California?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Daniel's method of memorizing the digits of pi different from most other people's methods?

2. What is Daniel's relationship with words?

3. What locations in Iceland fascinated Daniel the most? Why?

4. What were some of the biggest concerns about Daniel's involvement with the documentary and how did he overcome them?

5. Why did Daniel's travels and meetings during the making of Brainman and his appearances on television give him such a feeling of elation?

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

7. When Daniel returns to his family's new home after a year in Lithuania, why must he readjust to living there?

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

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

10. During his training for Volunteer Services, what were the main learning goals for Daniel and the class?

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