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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Feynman discover was the boards biggest concern with the textbooks?
(a) Usability.
(b) Cost.
(c) Practicality.
(d) Accuracy.

2. In Feynman's opinion, the learning in Brazil relies too heavily on ______________.
(a) Experiments.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Equations.
(d) Memorizing.

3. What is Feynman doing in the picture in the preface of the Feynman Lectures?
(a) Playing drums.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Working in Los Alamos.
(d) Giving a lecture.

4. What is the name of the Chinese-speaking Caucasian at the Caltech house party?
(a) Mr. Jones.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) Mrs. Jones.

5. What language does the Chinese speaking Caucasian at the Caltech house party think Feynman was using?
(a) Portuguese.
(b) German.
(c) Cantonese.
(d) Mandarian.

6. What would Feynman's landlady in Ithaca come to his apartment to listen to?
(a) Classical music.
(b) Feynman playing drums.
(c) Stories about Los Alamos.
(d) Feyman talking about art.

7. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?
(a) 236.
(b) 13.
(c) 584.
(d) 2920.

8. Why is Feynman invited to Washington, DC by the Secretary of the Army?
(a) For a top-secret meeting.
(b) To explain the atomic bomb.
(c) To evaluate weapons.
(d) To receive an award.

9. By the end of the book, Feynman has concluded that it is not a ____________ world.
(a) Logical.
(b) Boring.
(c) Just.
(d) Scientific.

10. The textbooks Feynman evaluates try to combine math with _____________.
(a) Literature.
(b) Games.
(c) Practical applications.
(d) Science.

11. Where is Feynman trying to get every summer when he usually gets stuck in Las Vegas?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) Tahoe.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Pacific Ocean.

12. Who does Feynman end up publishing a paper with about his new theory?
(a) Gell-Mann.
(b) Christy.
(c) Wu.
(d) Boehem.

13. What is Feynman always very careless about when he goes on a trip?
(a) Packing.
(b) Money.
(c) Host information.
(d) Time.

14. Where is Feynman when he discovers he can distinguish good art from bad art?
(a) Pasadena Art Museum.
(b) Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(c) Sistene Chapel.
(d) Basilica.

15. What special ceremony did the students in Sweden have for the Nobel Prize winner?
(a) Order of the Frog.
(b) Order of the Pig.
(c) Queen's Prize.
(d) King's Prize.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Feynman solve his dilemma at the airport when he goes to the conference at the University of North Carolina?

2. It took a certain amount of ___________ for Feynman to turn down requests to advise the government in the early sixties.

3. How does Feynman choose the number 13 for the number of signatures he is willing to sign for the city college paperwork?

4. What does Nick the Greek use to win his bets?

5. On what topic does Feynman ask a question on behalf of Martin Block to the other top physicists?

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