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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. Which scientist was "topnotch" at calculating at Los Alamos?

2. What is the name of the women at the nightclub in Albuquerque that Feynman befriended?

3. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?

4. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?

5. How much does Cornell University pay Feynman to do the lecture series in Buffalo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Feynman's name being on nuclear patents come back to haunt him in years later?

2. What amusing thing does Feynman discover years after his work at the Metaplast Corporation?

3. What challenges does Feynman face in his undergraduate courses?

4. What is the result of the improvements to his job that young Feynman tries while working at his aunt's hotel?

5. How does Feynman meet Albert Einstein?

6. What does Feynman discover about being a member of a fraternity while attending MIT?

7. What is the purpose of the "Vitals" chapter?

8. Where does Feynman spend his first night in Ithaca as he begins his career as a professor?

9. What is Feynman's experience like on his trips to Brazil?

10. What is Feynman's "fake Italian"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail what aspect of Feynman's life was most surprising and why.

Essay Topic 2

Do you think Feynman underplays the role he had in developing some of the biggest ideas of the twentieth century? Or, is it possible that some of the biggest ideas of his time period were just casual occurrences, as he makes them out to be?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Feynman's experience of giving his first technical lecture to the "monster minds." What two things did he take away from this experience?

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