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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Pierre Lecomte du Nouy born?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1912.

2. What word means marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic?
(a) Deviant.
(b) Valiant.
(c) Adamant.
(d) Viligant.

3. When did Henry DeWolf Smyth die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1945.

4. Johnny's letters from 1937 and 1938 in "A Few More of His Letters" showed that the young boy had an avid interest in what?
(a) Music.
(b) Politics.
(c) Art and literature.
(d) The solar system.

5. How old was Johnny when he was learning to do parallel crises and was working on improving his grades in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 16.

6. The first letter from "A Few More of His Letters" was written when Johnny was how old?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

7. What was the common name given to an administrative history written by physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Allied World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb?
(a) The DeWolf Report.
(b) The Smyth Report.
(c) The Allied Report.
(d) The Manhattan Report.

8. Where did Johnny's family return after Johnny's graduation in Chapter 5?
(a) London.
(b) Japan.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.

9. During his brief life, Johnny had discovered a new way to liquefy what compound?
(a) Cryteron.
(b) Ammonia.
(c) Radon.
(d) Hydrogen.

10. In "Aftermath," Johnny's family was told that what would be very important to the neurological institutes in the world because it was so unique that Johnny remained so well up to the very end?
(a) The slides from Johnny's brain.
(b) Johnny's memoir.
(c) Johnny's DNA.
(d) Johnny's brain samples.

11. In "The Diary", the author explains that Johnny kept a diary at whose suggestion?
(a) Dr. Traeger's.
(b) John's.
(c) Frances'.
(d) Dr. Medfield's.

12. What refers to keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret?
(a) Grief.
(b) Cataclysm.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Anxiety.

13. What part of Johnny's body was clumsy and wouldn't open properly when he returned home in Chapter 5?
(a) His right leg.
(b) His right hand.
(c) His left leg.
(d) His left hand.

14. After Johnny died, Frances had a hard time facing all the things that he used to love and remembered how he had especially loved his what?
(a) Football.
(b) Catching mitt.
(c) Chem lab.
(d) Horse saddle.

15. Henry DeWolf Smyth was a commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1949 to when?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the field of physics that is primarily concerned with the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus and the processes by which these arrangements change?

2. Johnny wrote to his parents that he had identified how many alloys or metals in "A Few More of His Letters"?

3. On what date was Johnny so tired he could barely get out of the bathtub in Chapter 5?

4. In the poem, "Holy Sonnet X," the author writes, "Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and" what?

5. When did John Gunther die?

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