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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Allied Report.
(c) The Smyth Report.
(d) The Manhattan Report.

2. On what date was Johnny so tired he could barely get out of the bathtub in Chapter 5?
(a) June 4.
(b) June 24.
(c) June 30.
(d) July 10.

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

4. The first letter from "A Few More of His Letters" showed Johnny's interest in what?
(a) His father's work.
(b) Music.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Mathematics.

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

6. 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?
(a) Atomic physics.
(b) Quantum physics.
(c) Constructive physics.
(d) Electrical physics.

7. Johnny was hospitalized once again on what date in Chapter 5, being then discharged and having two or three good days during which he went out to films and spent time with friends?
(a) June 12.
(b) May 27.
(c) June 27.
(d) June 4.

8. Who wrote a letter to Johnny's family after his death saying, "for such there must be an immortality which we who tinker at the body may guess at but not understand"?
(a) Robby Benson.
(b) Wilder Penfield.
(c) Arthur Hill.
(d) James Archer.

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

10. In "The Diary", Johnny wrote that he had decided to accept death without what?
(a) Detachment.
(b) Crying.
(c) Attachment.
(d) Fear.

11. On what date was Johnny cleared to go home in Chapter 5?
(a) March 12.
(b) May 12.
(c) May 15.
(d) September 10.

12. When did Pierre Lecomte du Nouy die?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1883.

13. Henry DeWolf Smyth was the chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton University from 1935 until when?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1959.

14. In Johnny's letters to his parents in "A Few More of His Letters," he mentioned doing what exercises daily?
(a) Eye.
(b) Coordination.
(c) Shoulder.
(d) Mind.

15. What provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically parametrized by an infinite number of dynamical degrees of freedom?
(a) Electrical physics.
(b) Quantum field theory.
(c) Constructive physics.
(d) Atomic physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played Johnny Gunther in the TV movie based on the narrative from "Death Be Not Proud"?

2. What is a chronic skin disease common in adolescence, involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands and characterized by pustules on the face, neck, and upper trunk?

3. Johnny's mother was of what religion?

4. What word means to have an effect on; influence; alter?

5. In "Aftermath," the author reprints how many letters from doctors who expressed their sympathies and regret for the unfulfilled promise Johnny had?

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