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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Darning needles.
(b) Dragon stingers.
(c) Daring drats.
(d) Darn beasts.

2. What was the name of the bar Feynman frequents in Buffalo?
(a) Black and White.
(b) The Alibi Room.
(c) Curly's.
(d) Buffalo Bill's.

3. Feynman's friend Bob Wilson tells him he has been hired to work on a secret project doing what?
(a) Separating electrons from protons.
(b) Separating the isotopes of uranium.
(c) Dividing protons of uranium.
(d) Dividing atomic energy into subparts.

4. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?
(a) Essential object.
(b) Essence of being.
(c) Object essence.
(d) Objectional essentials.

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

6. In high school Feynman changed the trigonometry ____________ because he didn't like the way they looked.
(a) Symbols.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Answers.
(d) Equations.

7. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.
(a) Full soup bowls.
(b) Old gum under the table.
(c) The salt shaker.
(d) Upside down glasses full of water.

8. What is the topic of the lecture Feynman is invited to give at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Language development.
(b) Quantum relativity.
(c) Biological relativity.
(d) Quantum electrodynamics.

9. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?
(a) Spellbound.
(b) Rear Window.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) The Birds.

10. What object does Feynman's friend Paul at Princeton get him to walk around trying to figure out how to use it without pain for two weeks?
(a) Abacus.
(b) Knife.
(c) Measuring tape.
(d) Lighter.

11. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Professor Lowell.
(d) Professor Gibbs.

12. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?
(a) He takes two aspirins and a coke.
(b) He uses hypnosis.
(c) He focuses on the physics.
(d) He drinks a shot.

13. Which language class does Feynman almost take because there was a pretty blond walking into it?
(a) French.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Portuguese.

14. What is the name of the restaurant where Feynman strikes up a conversation with a painter?
(a) Ed's Diner.
(b) Ma's Place.
(c) Papa's Place.
(d) Lou's Diner.

15. What Brazilian city is Feynman stuck in for a few days before he can get to Rio?
(a) Recife.
(b) Porto Neches.
(c) Lattes.
(d) Trinidad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman's salary at Cornell?

2. As a kid, what does Feynman observe under his microscope?

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

4. What doesn't Feynman like about working at his aunt's hotel?

5. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?

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