She does very well on anything requiring knowing vocabulary! She does less well on anything that assumes any local knowledge.

That is not unexpected! "You've picked up the language so fast."

"Thanks! I like languages and talking to people!"

"Is there a school you like the look of that wants all these tests?"

"There's a couple I kind of like, and I think between all of them there's at least one of each of these? I made a list of which ones have stuff I like."

"What're you picking based on?"

List! She explains what the symbols all mean. (And that they're all rainbow schools.) 

"Sounds like it's very important to you to have the whole rainbow experience."

"Yeah. I figure it's good for me to know all sorts of Amentans, so I learn the most about them? And I'm not, like, permanently blue? I'll be living with humans or shoggoths or even odder aliens most of my life, probably, so I gotta know more broad stuff, and I might not be a diplomat forever. Plus, purple stuff like building and green stuff like art's fun. Though I don't think I'll actually get tired of diplomacy ever, even if mom thinks I probably will in a century or two."

"That makes a lot of sense, wanting a broad background if you might age into different jobs over time."

"Yeah! Used to figure I'd be a builder or a like theater person first, though theater's got a lot of like weird in-jokes it takes a while to learn..."

"Doesn't that make it hard for laypeople to enjoy the productions?"

"Stuff's supposed to have a bunch of levels the audience can appreciate it on, so they're still fun, but also if you're growing up with them you get to know the memes, and if you're also a thousand years old and have been watching performances every season, you get to know stuff? I'm not growing up watching them more than super rarely, though."

"That makes sense. There's probably a lot of things that our media assumes people are familiar with, but not a thousand years to learn, since then nobody would learn it."

"Yeah! Possibly it'll change some as younger shoggoths get into theater? Right now lots of the population is super old but we had a small baby boom when the planet got more habitable."

"That does seem like a good time to have babies."

"Yeah. Mom's super young to be third generation, but the length between second and third usually was super long..."

"Was it very hard to live through the part where the planet was less habitable?"

"I think for shoggoths not really if you're big, but everything was super cold and there'd been a mass extinction, so there was less food, which would've been a problem with kids, and most of the communities were all clustered around the equator where it was nicer so had less space than we do now."

"That makes sense - I'd speculate about the adaptiveness of having most shoggoths not needing to eat, but of course it didn't need to evolve at all -"

"Yeah, I don't think that one did."

"Is there anything else you want help with?"

A few minor points, mostly actually helping explain things to her mom so her mom can help catch her up on local knowledge, but it's all stuff that can be covered quickly.

He's happy to oblige!

She doesn't really have any questions after that!