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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Daniel's brother, Steven, require a lot of help from his family?

2. Why are nouns Daniel's favorite parts of speech?

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

4. What dream did Daniel have the night before his public recitation of pi?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Daniel's state of mind as he recited pi for an audience for more than five hours.

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

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

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

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

7. What aspects of language does Daniel find more difficult than others to understand?

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

9. What is Daniel's relationship with words?

10. Why did the scientists in California ask if Daniel could visit with them longer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel is drawn to learn more about the language of Esperanto. He also develops his own language and calls it Manti. Why do you think he makes up his own language? Will he be able to speak it with anyone else? Why has his development of Manti attracted the attention of language researchers?

Essay Topic 2

How does Daniel feel in the gambling town of Las Vegas? Is this a city that someone like him would enjoy? What about it disturbs him? What personal reasons does he have against going there?

Essay Topic 3

Consider Daniel's imaginary friend, Anne.

1) Why did he need to make her and others up in his mind?

2) How real does it seem that they appear to be to him?

3) Why does he have Anne leave him and say she is dying?

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