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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Feynman spend his first year of teaching at Caltech?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Brazil.

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

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

4. On what topic does Feynman ask a question on behalf of Martin Block to the other top physicists?
(a) Freedom of liquidity.
(b) Parity freedom.
(c) Violation of parity.
(d) Quantum violation.

5. What does Feynman decide to do about the money from the lecture at the city college?
(a) Steal it.
(b) Sign the last document.
(c) Forfeit it.
(d) Demand it without signing.

6. How much does the science teacher offer Feynman to give a lecture?
(a) $500.
(b) $600.
(c) $60.
(d) $50.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. What is Feynman trying to achieve in the sensory deprivation tank?
(a) Prove it to be a scam.
(b) Total relaxation.
(c) Out-of-body experience.
(d) Nirvana.

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

15. Feynman's friend Jirayr Zorthian would argue that scientist destroyed the beauty of nature when they turned it into _________________.
(a) Dry lectures.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Mathematical equations.
(d) Theorems.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Feynman gives his lecture on Mayan culture, what does his friend Murray Gell-Mann give a lecture on weeks later?

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

3. What could Feynman draw in high school art class?

4. What is the "disease" of the middle age that Feynman is afflicted with?

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

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