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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. The textbooks Feynman evaluates try to combine math with _____________.
(a) Practical applications.
(b) Science.
(c) Games.
(d) Literature.

2. Where does Feynman stay during the conference in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers?
(a) Jewish Theological Seminary.
(b) Center for Law and Ethics.
(c) Holiday Inn.
(d) Hyatt Regency.

3. What board does a lawyer from Pasadena ask Feynman to join?
(a) State Board of Education.
(b) State Curriculum Commission.
(c) California Textbook Initiative.
(d) National Curriculum Committee.

4. Feynman has a long fascination with hallucinations and _____________.
(a) Sense deprivation.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Drugs.

5. What idea does a guy have at the Washington DC cocktail party given by the Secretary of the Army?
(a) Refueling tanks by helicoptors.
(b) Turning sand into tank fuel.
(c) Navigating tanks by stars.
(d) Using physicists to designing tanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman's reaction when he is told he won the Nobel Prize?

2. Where does Feynman get his term "cargo cult"?

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

4. Who recommends that Feynman should give a lecture on Mayan mathematics?

5. Who does Feynman get into a discussion with about the ethics of education?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Feynman end up providing a drum soundtrack for ballet competitions?

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

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

4. Why does Feynman's refusal to sign a fourteenth signature create confusion for the college's accounting department?

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

6. Why does Feynman ultimately resign from textbook reviewing?

7. Why does a group of rabbinical students consult Feynman on scientific matters?

8. Why does Professor Bacher want to play a trick on Feynman using Mrs. Smith who speaks Chinese?

9. What does Feynman think is the reason Jews are overrepresented in the sciences?

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

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