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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Feynman deferred from the army again after the war?
(a) Medical reasons.
(b) Physical limitations.
(c) He is teaching.
(d) He is working on the bomb.

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) A brick.
(b) A car.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Nothingness.

3. What does Feynman let the TWA hostess order in the nightclub in Albuquerque when he was pretending to be drunk?
(a) Drinks on the house.
(b) Beer.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Wine.

4. What tools does Feynman need to pick a Yale lock?
(a) Pliers and paperclip.
(b) Screwdriver and pliers.
(c) Pliers and hairpin.
(d) Screwdriver and paperclip.

5. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1946.

6. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Benzine.
(c) Lighter fluid.
(d) Charcoal.

7. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?
(a) Wind-propelled airplanes.
(b) Nucelar rockets.
(c) Nuclear-propelled, rocket airplanes.
(d) Rocket-propelled, nuclear missiles.

8. Where are the top secret papers first kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Underground.
(b) Bank safe.
(c) Filing cabinets.
(d) Boxes.

9. What is the name of the singer at the nightclub in Albuquerque who introduces Feynman to girls?
(a) Tonya.
(b) Tammy.
(c) Talia.
(d) Tamara.

10. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.
(a) Ivy League.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) MIT.

11. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

12. Where is Feynman asked to give a series of lectures in Buffalo?
(a) An aeronautics laboratory.
(b) Mohawk Airlines.
(c) A physics laboratory.
(d) Robinson Airlines.

13. What is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?
(a) Stationary.
(b) Calculators.
(c) Flowers.
(d) An Abacus.

14. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.
(a) An egghead.
(b) A nerd.
(c) A brainiac.
(d) A sissy.

15. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?
(a) Stand on his head.
(b) Cube roots.
(c) Drink shots.
(d) Quadratic equations.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.

2. In what language does Feynman give his lecture in at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?

3. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?

4. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?

5. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?

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