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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. What was the toughest part of the challenge to learn Icelandic for Daniel?

2. How is Daniel trained for his volunteer assignment?

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

4. What job does Daniel interview for and not receive?

5. How did Daniel's family react to Brainman when it was shown in Britain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Daniel's relationship with words?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel meets his partner, Neil, on the internet. What is it about the computer that makes life so much easier for him? Why does he and others on the autistic spectrum find communication on the internet reassuring? How does the computer become one of his life's focuses?

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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