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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) Germany.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

5. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Frank Oppenheimer.
(c) Hans Bethe.
(d) Bob Wilson.

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

7. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?
(a) Towels.
(b) Books.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Coke bottles.

8. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
(a) Stock market.
(b) Their daughters.
(c) Football.
(d) Golf.

9. Where is Feynman going to be giving lectures in Brazil?
(a) Center for Physical Research.
(b) Center for Learning Languages.
(c) Center for Physics Research.
(d) Center for Foreign Research.

10. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?
(a) Sing an Italian opera.
(b) Recite Mary Had a Little Lamb.
(c) Recite a poem.
(d) Dance the can-can.

11. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?
(a) Exponents.
(b) Integrals.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Algebra.

12. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.
(a) Physicists.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Engineers.

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

14. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Parties.
(b) Mixers.
(c) Smokers.
(d) Seminars.

15. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?
(a) Powers of observation.
(b) A code.
(c) Magic.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man in charge of the government patent office while Feynman is in Los Alamos?

2. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?

3. What does Feynman let the TWA hostess order in the nightclub in Albuquerque when he was pretending to be drunk?

4. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?

5. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?

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