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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 do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?
(a) Essential object.
(b) Objectional essentials.
(c) Object essence.
(d) Essence of being.

2. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?
(a) Advanced Chemistry.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Mathematics for the Practical Man.
(d) Advanced Calculus.

3. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Professor Gibbs.
(d) Professor Lowell.

4. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?

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

3. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?

4. What is Feynman's salary at Cornell?

5. What tool does young Feynman bring with him to fix the radio at his aunt's hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who teaches Feynman to use logic to solve math problems?

7. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?

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

9. What are Feynman's experience with the field of biology?

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

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