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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long would Feynman spend in the sensory deprivation tank each session?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 1.5 hours.
(d) 2.5 hours.

3. What is the topic of the conference at the University of North Carolina that Feynman attends?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Biology.

4. What year did Feynman give the "cargo cult" speech at a Caltech commencement?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1982.

5. What is Feynman eager to try in Japan?
(a) School system.
(b) Japanese food.
(c) Japanese bath.
(d) Bus system.

6. Where is Feynman when Dr. Wheeler asks him to go to Japan?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Caltech.

7. What does Feynman decide to do about the money from the lecture at the city college?
(a) Forfeit it.
(b) Demand it without signing.
(c) Steal it.
(d) Sign the last document.

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

9. Which scientist helps Feynman work out which way the difference goes in his new theory?
(a) Boehem.
(b) Christy.
(c) Gell-Mann.
(d) Wu.

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

11. What kind of music do Ralph Leighton and Feynman play together?
(a) Opera.
(b) Drums.
(c) Cello.
(d) Piano.

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

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

14. Feynman says the conference he attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers was worse than a _____________.
(a) Psychological evaluation.
(b) Rorschach test.
(c) Dentist appointment.
(d) First date.

15. What is Feynman trying to achieve in the sensory deprivation tank?
(a) Prove it to be a scam.
(b) Out-of-body experience.
(c) Total relaxation.
(d) Nirvana.

Short Answer Questions

1. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?

2. Feynman's friend Jirayr Zorthian would argue that scientist destroyed the beauty of nature when they turned it into _________________.

3. Where is Feynman trying to get every summer when he usually gets stuck in Las Vegas?

4. What is the first document Feynman has to sign for the city college?

5. Where do the Las Vegas prostitutes learn the names of famous physicists?

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