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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?
(a) Objectional essentials.
(b) Essential object.
(c) Object essence.
(d) Essence of being.

2. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) Germany.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

3. What is the name of the town where Feynman was born?
(a) Queens.
(b) Rock Harbor.
(c) New York City.
(d) Far Rockaway.

4. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?
(a) Mechanical pencils.
(b) Plastic-coated cameras.
(c) Plastic cups.
(d) Plastic-coated pens.

5. In what language does Feynman give his lecture in at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) German.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the women at the nightclub in Albuquerque that Feynman befriended?

2. Where does Feynman spend a summer working for the army?

3. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?

4. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.

5. How many patents does Feynman "sell" to the US government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does young Feynman notice about paramecia when he looks at them under a microscope?

2. What "party trick" does Feynman do with his ability to smell?

3. What makes Feynman nervous about attending Princeton and what poses challenges for him?

4. What challenges does Feynman face in his undergraduate courses?

5. What was Feynman's role in the Manhattan Project?

6. Why does Feynman fix radios for people as a child?

7. What are Feynman's experience with hypnotism?

8. What kind of work does Feynman do for the army?

9. How does Feynman spend the money he makes giving weekend lectures in Buffalo?

10. How does Feynman's name being on nuclear patents come back to haunt him in years later?

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