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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Frank Oppenheimer.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Hans Bethe.

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) Nothingness.
(b) A brick.
(c) A car.
(d) Electrons.

3. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?
(a) Plastic cups.
(b) Plastic-coated pens.
(c) Plastic-coated cameras.
(d) Mechanical pencils.

4. What method does Feynman use to "trick" people at Princeton into thinking he could do fast math?
(a) Addition method.
(b) Angles method.
(c) Approximate method.
(d) Articulate methiod.

5. Which language class does Feynman almost take because there was a pretty blond walking into it?
(a) Portuguese.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Russian.

6. What does Ms. Eisenhart think Feynman is joking about at the Princeton tea?
(a) Having two lumps of sugar in his tea.
(b) Asking for coffee instead of tea.
(c) Having cream and lemon in his tea.
(d) Requesting a soda instead of tea.

7. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?
(a) His excessive intelligence.
(b) His parent's encouragement.
(c) His puzzle drive.
(d) His great mechanical skill.

8. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1929.

9. What is a popular topic in the graduate lounge at Princeton?
(a) Food.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Topology.
(d) Girls.

10. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
(a) Golf.
(b) Stock market.
(c) Football.
(d) Their daughters.

11. Where does Feynman spend a summer working for the army?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) Frankfort.
(d) New York City.

12. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?
(a) Drink shots.
(b) Stand on his head.
(c) Cube roots.
(d) Quadratic equations.

13. As a kid, what does Feynman observe under his microscope?
(a) Ants.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Amoebae.
(d) Paramecia.

14. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?
(a) Spellbound.
(b) The Birds.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) Rear Window.

15. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Professor Lowell.
(d) Professor Gibbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?

2. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?

3. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.

4. Where is Feynman asked to give a series of lectures in Buffalo?

5. What does Feynman discover about the study of biology?

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