Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 does Feynman let the TWA hostess order in the nightclub in Albuquerque when he was pretending to be drunk?

2. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?

3. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?

4. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of work does Feynman do for the army?

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

3. How does Feynman get a reputation as a "big spender" at a nightclub in New Mexico?

4. What "party trick" does Feynman do with his ability to smell?

5. Where does Feynman learn the mind-reading trick he tries on his fellow students at Princeton?

6. Where does Feynman spend his first night in Ithaca as he begins his career as a professor?

7. How does Feynman spend the money he makes giving weekend lectures in Buffalo?

8. What are Feynman's experience with the field of biology?

9. What makes Feynman nervous about attending Princeton and what poses challenges for him?

10. Why does Feynman fix radios for people as a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does Feynman approach life like he approaches physics? In what ways is his approach to life different than his approach to science?

Essay Topic 2

Explain what is meant by the last line in the book: "So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom." What kind of integrity is Feynman referring to? How did he show this integrity throughout his life?

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Feynman underplays the role he had in developing some of the biggest ideas of the twentieth century? Or, is it possible that some of the biggest ideas of his time period were just casual occurrences, as he makes them out to be?

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