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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Feynman at the airport in North Carolina when he attends a conference at the university there?
(a) Porter.
(b) Taxi dispatcher.
(c) Stewardess.
(d) Taxi driver.

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

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

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

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

6. It took a certain amount of ___________ for Feynman to turn down requests to advise the government in the early sixties.
(a) Courage.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Stupidity.

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

8. What is the one thing missing from the cargo cult sciences, according to Feynman?
(a) Proof.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Experiments.
(d) Consistency.

9. Who does Feynman get into a discussion with about the ethics of education?
(a) A rabbi.
(b) A Jesuit priest.
(c) An international lawyer.
(d) A historian.

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

11. After Feynman gives his lecture on Mayan culture, what does his friend Murray Gell-Mann give a lecture on weeks later?
(a) Russian culture.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Linguistics.

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

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

14. How does Feynman solve his dilemma at the airport when he goes to the conference at the University of North Carolina?
(a) He buys what he needs at the airport gift shop.
(b) He describes the conference goers.
(c) He goes to a bar to have a good time.
(d) He does card tricks for money.

15. What board does a lawyer from Pasadena ask Feynman to join?
(a) State Curriculum Commission.
(b) National Curriculum Committee.
(c) State Board of Education.
(d) California Textbook Initiative.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the things Feynman dislikes about Cornell?

2. The textbooks Feynman evaluates try to combine math with _____________.

3. What is Feynman always very careless about when he goes on a trip?

4. Who recommends that Feynman should give a lecture on Mayan mathematics?

5. Feynman would argue with his friend Jirayr Zorthian that artists don't have any subject because they lost their ___________.

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