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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which one of the following does Feynman NOT use as an example of mysticism?
(a) UFOs.
(b) Astrology.
(c) ESP.
(d) Conspiracy theories.

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

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

6. What musicians in the ethnological records that are given to Feynman does he admire the most?
(a) Belgian pianists.
(b) French cellists.
(c) Watusi drummers.
(d) Italian sopranos.

7. Besides chatting with gamblers, who else does Feynman like to meet in Las Vegas?
(a) Pit bosses.
(b) Dealers.
(c) Waitresses.
(d) Show girls.

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

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

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

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

12. What idea does a guy have at the Washington DC cocktail party given by the Secretary of the Army?
(a) Refueling tanks by helicoptors.
(b) Using physicists to designing tanks.
(c) Turning sand into tank fuel.
(d) Navigating tanks by stars.

13. Where does Feynman go to try the hot baths?
(a) Eureka Springs.
(b) Easton.
(c) Hot Springs.
(d) Esalen.

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

15. What is the topic of the conference Feynman attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers?
(a) The science of ethical morality.
(b) The morality of science.
(c) The ethics of equality.
(d) The ethics of philiosophy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Feynman want to stay while in Japan?

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

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

5. What business was Feynman's father in?

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