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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What problem does Feynman have with giving lectures after he wins the Nobel Prize?
(a) Physics students expecting favors.
(b) Too many people attending.
(c) People wanting to know his secrets.
(d) Too few people attending.

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

4. What is Feynman's dilemma when he arrives at the airport to go to the conference at the University of North Carolina?
(a) He has no money for a taxi.
(b) He forgot his suitcase.
(c) He is there at the wrong time.
(d) He doesn't know which university is hosting the conference.

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

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

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

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

9. In what year does Feynman attend a conference at the University of North Carolina?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1953.

10. Where does Feynman take art classes?
(a) Caltech.
(b) Art Institure of L.A.
(c) Pasadena Art Museum.
(d) UCLA.

11. Where is Feynman when he discovers he can distinguish good art from bad art?
(a) Sistene Chapel.
(b) Basilica.
(c) Pasadena Art Museum.
(d) Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

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

14. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?
(a) 2920.
(b) 584.
(c) 13.
(d) 236.

15. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?
(a) 12 percent.
(b) 9 percent.
(c) 7 percent.
(d) 3 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the dancer from the Flamingo tell Feynman she was?

2. Who helps Feynman at the airport in North Carolina when he attends a conference at the university there?

3. What is Feynman trying to achieve in the sensory deprivation tank?

4. In Feynman's opinion, the learning in Brazil relies too heavily on ______________.

5. Where does Feynman get his term "cargo cult"?

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