Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year did Feynman give the "cargo cult" speech at a Caltech commencement?
2. What special ceremony did the students in Sweden have for the Nobel Prize winner?
3. What is Feynman doing in the picture in the preface of the Feynman Lectures?
4. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?
5. Who does the dancer from the Flamingo tell Feynman she was?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Feynman take art lessons from Jiyrayr Zorthian?
2. Who introduces Feynman to the sense deprivation tank?
3. What is Feynman's connection to a Pasadena topless bar?
4. Why does Professor Bacher want to play a trick on Feynman using Mrs. Smith who speaks Chinese?
5. Why does Feynman's refusal to sign a fourteenth signature create confusion for the college's accounting department?
6. Why is Mrs. Smith flustered when Feynman speaks to her in "fake Chinese"?
7. What does Feynman later learn about offer from University of Chicago?
8. Who teaches Feynman to have "out of body" experience in the deprivation tank?
9. What stipulation does Feynman make before agreeing to lecture at a local city college?
10. Why is the experience of winning the Nobel Prize stressful to Feynman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the many things in Feynman's private life that you wouldn't necessarily associate with a professor in physics and a Nobel laureate, and why.
Essay Topic 2
Feynman is a self-reported "one-sided" scientist. Discuss how he achieves success in so many artistic mediums.
Essay Topic 3
What do you think was Feynman's purpose for writing this book and how would you characterize his ego?
This section contains 897 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |