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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What university offers Feynman a staggering salary?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) University of North Carolina.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

2. What does Nick the Greek use to win his bets?
(a) Superstitions.
(b) Betting on the table.
(c) The odds.
(d) Reputations.

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

4. Where does Feynman spend his first year of teaching at Caltech?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Hollywood.

5. What does the man who talks to Feynman by pool of his Las Vegas motel do for a living?
(a) Bet on horses.
(b) Play poker.
(c) Bet on greyhounds.
(d) Play blackjack.

6. How many signatures does Feynman get to before he gives the lecture at the city college?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirteen.

7. What university is Baba Ram Das from?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Caltech.

8. Where does Feynman want to stay while in Japan?
(a) A Japanese-style hotel.
(b) A luxurious resort.
(c) A European-style hotel.
(d) A private home.

9. While visiting Caltech, where does Feynman drive every night?
(a) Rodeo Drive.
(b) Sunset Strip.
(c) The beach.
(d) Las Vegas.

10. What could Feynman draw in high school art class?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Houses.
(c) Pyramids in deserts.
(d) Stacks of cubes.

11. What is Feynman's reaction when he is told he won the Nobel Prize?
(a) He throws up.
(b) He doesn't accept the prize.
(c) He dances around the room with his wife.
(d) He hangs up on the caller.

12. What is the name of the host of the house party Feynman attends shorty after arriving at Caltech?
(a) Professor Baxter.
(b) Professor Bacher.
(c) Professor Bast.
(d) Professor Baylor.

13. What is the name of the publisher that made a series of Feynman's physics lectures into books?
(a) Random House.
(b) Norton Paperback.
(c) Addison-Wesley Company.
(d) Harcourt Press.

14. Who does Feynman want to sign the last document needed by the city college?
(a) The president.
(b) Himself.
(c) The science teacher.
(d) Mickey Mouse.

15. What had John Lilly done work on before becoming involved with sense deprivation?
(a) Dolphins.
(b) Drama.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Feynman when Dr. Wheeler asks him to go to Japan?

2. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?

3. Feynman has a long fascination with hallucinations and _____________.

4. In what year does Feynman attend a conference at the University of North Carolina?

5. Feynman told the woman from Denmark after the Nobel dinner that they could talk about physics because everybody ___________.

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