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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) Parties.
(b) Smokers.
(c) Mixers.
(d) Seminars.

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

3. Which scientist was "topnotch" at calculating at Los Alamos?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Paul Olum.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the places Feynman tries to sleep his first night in Ithaca, NY?
(a) Hotel.
(b) Couch in a hallway.
(c) Airport.
(d) Pile of leaves.

5. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Frank Oppenheimer.
(d) Bob Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?

2. What method does Feynman use to "trick" people at Princeton into thinking he could do fast math?

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

4. What theory does Feynman never work out, despite doing research on it for years?

5. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?

3. What is Feynman's fascination with locks and safes?

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

5. What does Feynman learn from his experience with the painter?

6. Where does Feynman learn the mind-reading trick he tries on his fellow students at Princeton?

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

8. What does Feynman discover about being a member of a fraternity while attending MIT?

9. What is the purpose of the "Vitals" chapter?

10. What amusing thing does Feynman discover years after his work at the Metaplast Corporation?

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