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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. Where do the Las Vegas prostitutes learn the names of famous physicists?

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

3. What board does a lawyer from Pasadena ask Feynman to join?

4. What planet does Feynman use in his example of how he spotted the fake Mayan document?

5. Who does Feynman have to write a report for about his time in Brazil?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Feynman decide to learn about Mayan mathematics?

3. What does Feynman mean by "cargo cults"?

4. Who introduces Feynman to the sense deprivation tank?

5. Why is the experience of winning the Nobel Prize stressful to Feynman?

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

7. What is Feynman's experience like when he serves on a committee to choose math textbooks for California?

8. Why does Feynman take art lessons from Jiyrayr Zorthian?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the teenage Feynman frustrated by the lack of innovation (or interest in innovation) he finds in others?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss your five favorite Feynman anecdotes and why they resonated with you.

Essay Topic 3

Explain what is meant by the last line in the book: "So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom." What kind of integrity is Feynman referring to? How did he show this integrity throughout his life?

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