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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?
2. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?
3. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?
4. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?
5. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Feynman spend his first night in Ithaca as he begins his career as a professor?
2. What challenges does Feynman face in his undergraduate courses?
3. What is Feynman's experience like on his trips to Brazil?
4. What are Feynman's experience with the field of biology?
5. What is the purpose of the "Vitals" chapter?
6. What does young Feynman notice about paramecia when he looks at them under a microscope?
7. What strategy for picking up women does Feynman learn from his friend Gloria?
8. How does Feynman get to perform with a samba during the Rio carnival?
9. What kind of work does Feynman do for the army?
10. What are Feynman's experience with hypnotism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Feynman's fascination with languages and other cultures. What are some of the lessons he takes away from these experiences?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Feynman's experience of giving his first technical lecture to the "monster minds." What two things did he take away from this experience?
Essay Topic 3
Bob Wilson, Feynman's colleague from Princeton who convinced him to join the Manhattan project, is beginning to understand the level of human suffering that will come from the thing they have created. Why is he overtaken with guilt and fear? How and when does Feynman express some of the same feelings?
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