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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why doesn't the stenographer at the conference in New York think Feynman could be a professor?
(a) He didn't sound very intelligent.
(b) He used too many scientific terms.
(c) He could understand him.
(d) He couldn't understand him.

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

6. As a child, where does Feynman first learn about the Mayans?
(a) New York Museum of Natural History.
(b) High School Science Fair.
(c) York County Fair.
(d) New York World's Fair.

7. Where does Feynman get his term "cargo cult"?
(a) Africa.
(b) Brazil.
(c) China.
(d) South Seas.

8. Feynman has a long fascination with hallucinations and _____________.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Sense deprivation.

9. Who recommends that Feynman should give a lecture on Mayan mathematics?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Nina Beyers.
(d) Otto Neugebauer.

10. What planet does Feynman use in his example of how he spotted the fake Mayan document?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Saturn.
(d) Mars.

11. Which of the following is NOT one of the things Feynman dislikes about Cornell?
(a) Talking to professors.
(b) Small town.
(c) The weather.
(d) Cultural experiences.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea does a guy have at the Washington DC cocktail party given by the Secretary of the Army?

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

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

5. What does Feynman discover was the boards biggest concern with the textbooks?

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