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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. While staying in Syracuse, who gives Feynman good advice about figuring out a complicated theory?
(a) His sister.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

2. Feynman says the conference he attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers was worse than a _____________.
(a) Rorschach test.
(b) First date.
(c) Dentist appointment.
(d) Psychological evaluation.

3. Feynman would argue with his friend Jirayr Zorthian that artists don't have any subject because they lost their ___________.
(a) Sanity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Ethics.

4. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?
(a) 9 percent.
(b) 7 percent.
(c) 3 percent.
(d) 12 percent.

5. What is the topic of the conference at the University of North Carolina that Feynman attends?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Biology.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the publisher that made a series of Feynman's physics lectures into books?

2. By the end of the book, Feynman has concluded that it is not a ____________ world.

3. What would Feynman's landlady in Ithaca come to his apartment to listen to?

4. Who does the dancer from the Flamingo tell Feynman she was?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who teaches Feynman to have "out of body" experience in the deprivation tank?

2. What problem does Feynman run into when he flies to North Carolina for a conference?

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

4. What does Feynman realize when he befriends some Las Vegas showgirls?

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

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

7. What convinces Feynman that Japanese culture is more civilized than American culture?

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

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

10. Why is Feynman asked to give a lecture on Mayan math at UCLA?

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