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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. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.
2. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Four.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Only Feynman.
3. What is needed to make the patent documents legal for the government?
(a) An official seal.
(b) Approval from Congress.
(c) An exchange of money.
(d) A signature.
4. What theory does Feynman never work out, despite doing research on it for years?
(a) Gravitational interaction.
(b) Quantum theory of potentials.
(c) Atomic energy.
(d) Electrodynamics.
5. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?
(a) Sum of x.
(b) Series for pi.
(c) Series for e.
(d) Sum of e.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?
2. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?
3. Where is Feynman going to be giving lectures in Brazil?
4. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?
5. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Feynman mean when he says he is working with a "different box of tools" than the math students are?
2. What is Feynman's fascination with locks and safes?
3. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?
4. Who teaches Feynman to use logic to solve math problems?
5. What happens when Feynman encounters a Japanese man who wants him to use an abacus to solve math problems?
6. What is Feynman's "fake Italian"?
7. Where does Feynman learn the mind-reading trick he tries on his fellow students at Princeton?
8. What are Feynman's experience with the field of biology?
9. What does young Feynman notice about paramecia when he looks at them under a microscope?
10. How does Feynman get to perform with a samba during the Rio carnival?
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