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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which insect is Feynman the most interested in studying over the course of his life?
(a) Beetles.
(b) Ants.
(c) Bees.
(d) Cockroaches.

2. How much does Feynman have to pay for what the TWA hostess orders in the nightclub in Albuquerque?
(a) A hundred dollars.
(b) Six dollars.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sixteen dollars.

3. What is the name of the man in charge of the government patent office while Feynman is in Los Alamos?
(a) Captain Jones.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Captain Smith.

4. Where is the first place Feynman stays in Los Alamos?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A laboratory.
(c) An old school.
(d) A campground.

5. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.
(a) A brainiac.
(b) An egghead.
(c) A sissy.
(d) A nerd.

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

7. What is Feynman's salary at Cornell?
(a) $4,000/year.
(b) $37,000/year.
(c) $3,600/year.
(d) $40,000/year.

8. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Darn beasts.
(b) Darning needles.
(c) Daring drats.
(d) Dragon stingers.

9. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?
(a) Heh-heh-heh-heh.
(b) Surely you're joking!
(c) Uhm-uhm-uhm.
(d) Hmm-hmm-hmm.

10. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Professors.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Philosophers.

11. Where is Feynman going to be giving lectures in Brazil?
(a) Center for Learning Languages.
(b) Center for Physical Research.
(c) Center for Foreign Research.
(d) Center for Physics Research.

12. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1943.

13. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?
(a) Rocket-propelled, nuclear missiles.
(b) Nucelar rockets.
(c) Nuclear-propelled, rocket airplanes.
(d) Wind-propelled airplanes.

14. Why is Feynman deferred from the army again after the war?
(a) He is working on the bomb.
(b) Physical limitations.
(c) Medical reasons.
(d) He is teaching.

15. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.
(a) Ivy League.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) MIT.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?

2. What is the name of the town where Feynman was born?

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

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

5. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?

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