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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) The president.
(c) Himself.
(d) The science teacher.

2. What is Feynman going to give a lecture on in Kyoto?
(a) Japanese culture.
(b) Liquid nitrogen.
(c) Liquid helium.
(d) American culture.

3. What could Feynman draw in high school art class?
(a) Pyramids in deserts.
(b) Houses.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Stacks of cubes.

4. What is the name of the publisher that made a series of Feynman's physics lectures into books?
(a) Addison-Wesley Company.
(b) Norton Paperback.
(c) Random House.
(d) Harcourt Press.

5. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?
(a) 13.
(b) 2920.
(c) 584.
(d) 236.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what topic does Feynman ask a question on behalf of Martin Block to the other top physicists?

2. What causes Feynman to stay at Caltech?

3. What language does the Chinese speaking Caucasian at the Caltech house party think Feynman was using?

4. What is the "disease" of the middle age that Feynman is afflicted with?

5. How does Feynman solve his dilemma at the airport when he goes to the conference at the University of North Carolina?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Feynman immerse himself in Japanese culture while attending a conference in Japan?

2. What does Feynman discover about particle decay theory?

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

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

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

6. How does Feynman discover is the way that Nick the Greek makes his money?

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

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

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

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

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