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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the musician who gives Feynman lessons after they meet on the Sunset Strip?
(a) Ukonu.
(b) Pierre Bon.
(c) Hans Felder.
(d) Mario Pietali.

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Feynman have to write a report for about his time in Brazil?
(a) Brazilian Academy of Science.
(b) Cornell University.
(c) Physics Institute.
(d) State Department.

10. How does Feynman choose the number 13 for the number of signatures he is willing to sign for the city college paperwork?
(a) Favorite number.
(b) Randomly.
(c) Scientifically.
(d) Lucky number.

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

12. Feynman is involved in the problematic search for the right laws of _______________.
(a) Particle decay.
(b) Beta reflectors.
(c) Particle reflectors.
(d) Beta decay.

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

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

15. What is the name of the document that gets Feynman interested in Mayan culture?
(a) Gautemalan Codex.
(b) Villacorta.
(c) Mayan Mathematics.
(d) Dresden Codex.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Feynman want to sign the last document needed by the city college?

4. What is Feynman eager to try in Japan?

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

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