What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 152 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 152 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Richard mentions an artist friend who stated that scientists take beautiful flowers apart and then the flowers become what?

2. Before Richard was born, his father told his mother that "if it's a boy, he's going to be a" what?

3. Richard made friends with the Queen's secretary and went to his home to meet his wife and family. How many daughters did the secretary have?

4. When Richard attended a meeting of physicists organized by John Wheeler, what was the name of the country club where they held the meetings?

5. While on a tour inside the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, Richard spotted a physicist friend of his from where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the policeman do while Richard followed the procession?

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

3. Why were there a lot of new buildings in Warsaw, Poland?

4. How did Richard's friend from Los Alamos explain to him how she may have mistakenly thought that he knew Herman?

5. Why did Richard show the innkeeper his receipt for his reservation at the big resort hotel?

6. What happens to the large central part of the shuttle a few minutes after a shuttle launch?

7. What did Richard tell his wife about the Palace of Culture and Science?

8. Describe what happened when Richard showed up at Barbara's house to take her out on their date.

9. When Richard speaks about writing an essay for the regents examination, he states that his literary friends were always "throwing the bull." What does this mean, and why does Richard decide to do it?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe one of your favorite individuals in the book. Expound on their characteristics and values that you find intriguing. Describe what their importance in the book was.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Richard's quest to test his internal clock while counting. How do you think this single experiment influenced RIchard for the rest of his life? Do you think this simple test of numbers influence those around Richard in some way? Describe what Richard's friends thought about this research.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the events of the O-ring ice water demonstration that Richard performs at one of the meetings of the commission. What objects did Richard need to complete this demonstration and why did he need those particular objects?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 831 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.