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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 word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Obvious.
(b) Theorem.
(c) Construct.
(d) Trivial.

2. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?
(a) Series for e.
(b) Series for pi.
(c) Sum of e.
(d) Sum of x.

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

4. What method does Feynman use to "trick" people at Princeton into thinking he could do fast math?
(a) Articulate methiod.
(b) Approximate method.
(c) Addition method.
(d) Angles method.

5. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Only Feynman.
(c) Four.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Cornell University pay Feynman to do the lecture series in Buffalo?

2. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.

3. Despite his degree in physics, Feynman works as what for the army during one summer?

4. What was the name of the bar Feynman frequents in Buffalo?

5. In high school Feynman changed the trigonometry ____________ because he didn't like the way they looked.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are Feynman's experience with hypnotism?

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

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

6. What is the result of the improvements to his job that young Feynman tries while working at his aunt's hotel?

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

8. Why is Feynman rejected by the army draft board?

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

10. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?

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