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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. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Mixers.
(b) Seminars.
(c) Parties.
(d) Smokers.

2. What Brazilian city is Feynman stuck in for a few days before he can get to Rio?
(a) Lattes.
(b) Recife.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Porto Neches.

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

4. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1918.

5. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.
(a) A nerd.
(b) A sissy.
(c) A brainiac.
(d) An egghead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman's salary at Cornell?

2. Where is Feynman going to be giving lectures in Brazil?

3. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?

4. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?

5. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Feynman get paid one dollar for ideas on nuclear energy?

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

3. What is Feynman's "fake Italian"?

4. How does Feynman get a reputation as a "big spender" at a nightclub in New Mexico?

5. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?

6. What happens when Feynman encounters a Japanese man who wants him to use an abacus to solve math problems?

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

8. What are Feynman's experience with hypnotism?

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

10. How does Feynman get to perform with a samba during the Rio carnival?

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