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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 is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?
(a) An Abacus.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Stationary.
(d) Calculators.

2. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.
(a) A nerd.
(b) A brainiac.
(c) A sissy.
(d) An egghead.

3. Where is the first place Feynman stays in Los Alamos?
(a) A campground.
(b) A laboratory.
(c) An old school.
(d) A hotel.

4. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) A car.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) Electrons.
(d) A brick.

5. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?
(a) Surely you're joking!
(b) Uhm-uhm-uhm.
(c) Hmm-hmm-hmm.
(d) Heh-heh-heh-heh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tutored Feynman's father as a child?

2. What is the name of the restaurant where Feynman strikes up a conversation with a painter?

3. What is the name of the girl from the nightclub in Albuquerque that eventually sleeps with Feynman?

4. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?

5. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What makes Feynman nervous about attending Princeton and what poses challenges for him?

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 the purpose of the "Vitals" chapter?

8. What kind of work does Feynman do for the army?

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

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

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