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

2. Who tutored Feynman's father as a child?
(a) A mindreader.
(b) A hypnotists.
(c) A magician.
(d) A mathematician.

3. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?
(a) Art History.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Astrophysics.
(d) Astronomy.

4. What does Feynman spend his dollar on that he received for selling his government patent?
(a) Socks.
(b) Beer.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Cookies.

5. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?
(a) He drinks a shot.
(b) He uses hypnosis.
(c) He takes two aspirins and a coke.
(d) He focuses on the physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?

2. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.

3. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?

4. What is the name of the town where Feynman was born?

5. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What strategy for picking up women does Feynman learn from his friend Gloria?

3. What is Feynman's experience like on his trips to Brazil?

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

5. What does Feynman mean when he says he is working with a "different box of tools" than the math students are?

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

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

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

9. Where does Feynman spend his first night in Ithaca as he begins his career as a professor?

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

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