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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is needed to make the patent documents legal for the government?
(a) A signature.
(b) An exchange of money.
(c) Approval from Congress.
(d) An official seal.

2. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Trivial.
(b) Construct.
(c) Theorem.
(d) Obvious.

3. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Only Feynman.
(c) Four.
(d) Twenty.

4. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?
(a) Sum of x.
(b) Series for pi.
(c) Sum of e.
(d) Series for e.

5. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.
(a) The salt shaker.
(b) Upside down glasses full of water.
(c) Full soup bowls.
(d) Old gum under the table.

Short Answer Questions

1. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?

2. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?

3. How many patents does Feynman "sell" to the US government?

4. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?

5. How many desserts does the pantry lady leave for Feynman each night when he works at his aunt's hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Feynman encounters a Japanese man who wants him to use an abacus to solve math problems?

2. Why is Feynman rejected by the army draft board?

3. What amusing thing does Feynman discover years after his work at the Metaplast Corporation?

4. What does Feynman mean when he says he is working with a "different box of tools" than the math students are?

5. What is Feynman's experience like on his trips to Brazil?

6. What are Feynman's experience with hypnotism?

7. What does Feynman discover about being a member of a fraternity while attending MIT?

8. What strategy for picking up women does Feynman learn from his friend Gloria?

9. How does Feynman's name being on nuclear patents come back to haunt him in years later?

10. What was Feynman's role in the Manhattan Project?

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