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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. While Richard watched the dedication ceremony of a shrine, who tapped him on the shoulder?
(a) A small boy.
(b) His wife.
(c) Their host.
(d) The head priest.

2. A lady across the street from the inn in Iseokitsu gave Richard what?
(a) A wind chime.
(b) A painting.
(c) A kimono.
(d) A silk ball.

3. Richard's father told him that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called what?
(a) A nucleus.
(b) A neutron.
(c) A proton.
(d) A photon.

4. What is located behind the area where the crew sits on a space shuttle?
(a) The fuel rockets.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The engines.
(d) The cargo bay.

5. After Richard noticed the tree frog in the garden, he also noted a snake of what color?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is located at the front of the space shuttle orbiter?

2. Richard was so sensitive about being a sissy that it even bothered him to buy what snacks from the market?

3. Richard mentions that a friend of his mother was trying to make a living during the Depression by doing what?

4. Besides telling the speakers when to stop, what other duty did Richard's co-chairmen perform?

5. When Richard took his first date out, what did they talk about playing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kyoto University tell Richard when he told them he had no paper to give at the conference?

2. How did Richard learn about algebra?

3. Describe what Richard looked like when he was performing one of his "experiments" and he forgot to lock the door and someone walked in on him.

4. When Richard is describing the shuttle, what does he say is the large, central part of the shuttle, and what does this part contain?

5. Why was Richard told that it was all right when one speaker at the conference went over his time limit?

6. What did the librarian say when Richard tried to check out the book, Calculus for the Practical Man, and who did he say the book is for?

7. Why did Richard tell Gweneth and Michelle that he had to write with a paper on his lap when he wrote his letter from the Royal Olympic Hotel in Athens?

8. What did Richard's friends, Al Hibbs and Dick Davies, tell Richard he should do about being asked to be on the investigation committee of the Challenger accident?

9. When did Richard finally cry after his wife passed away?

10. What did the ballroom in the palace in Brussels look like where Richard had to wait 20 minutes for the king and queen?

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