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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 did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
2. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
3. How many desserts does the pantry lady leave for Feynman each night when he works at his aunt's hotel?
4. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?
5. What does Feynman let the TWA hostess order in the nightclub in Albuquerque when he was pretending to be drunk?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of work does Feynman do for the army?
2. How does Feynman get to perform with a samba during the Rio carnival?
3. What "party trick" does Feynman do with his ability to smell?
4. Why does Feynman fix radios for people as a child?
5. Where does Feynman spend his first night in Ithaca as he begins his career as a professor?
6. What makes Feynman nervous about attending Princeton and what poses challenges for him?
7. What amusing thing does Feynman discover years after his work at the Metaplast Corporation?
8. What are Feynman's experience with the field of biology?
9. What strategy for picking up women does Feynman learn from his friend Gloria?
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 analogy of the cargo cult and what he was trying to illustrate to future scientists.
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
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman is a collection of colorful anecdotes from the life of this famous physicist. Explain in detail what overall theme emerges from this collection of life stories.
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