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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. Who does Feynman want to sign the last document needed by the city college?
(a) Mickey Mouse.
(b) Himself.
(c) The science teacher.
(d) The president.

2. Feynman does not like the Japanese language because it was too concerned with being _________.
(a) Polite.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Precise.
(d) Accurate.

3. What musicians in the ethnological records that are given to Feynman does he admire the most?
(a) Belgian pianists.
(b) French cellists.
(c) Watusi drummers.
(d) Italian sopranos.

4. How much does the science teacher offer Feynman to give a lecture?
(a) $50.
(b) $500.
(c) $60.
(d) $600.

5. Where does Feynman take art classes?
(a) Caltech.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Pasadena Art Museum.
(d) Art Institure of L.A.

Short Answer Questions

1. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?

2. What does the reporter from Time magazine tell Feynman about the Nobel?

3. What does Feynman try to teach his friend Jirayr Zorthian?

4. Feynman says the conference he attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers was worse than a _____________.

5. Where does Feynman go to try the hot baths?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although "The Seven Percent Solution" discusses physics in a technical way, what is the main point of the chapter?

2. What is Feynman's connection to a Pasadena topless bar?

3. Why is Mrs. Smith flustered when Feynman speaks to her in "fake Chinese"?

4. Why is Feynman mistaken for a Native American performing a tribal ritual?

5. What does Feynman later learn about offer from University of Chicago?

6. Why does Feynman decide to stay with Caltech during the bidding war between Caltech and Cornell?

7. What is Feynman's experience like when he serves on a committee to choose math textbooks for California?

8. Why does Feynman give lectures under a false name after winning the Nobel Prize?

9. How does Feynman help the cab driver figure out which university to take him to for the conference in North Carolina?

10. What does Feynman mean by "cargo cults"?

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