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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 does Feynman believe is not truly being taught in Brazil?
2. What had John Lilly done work on before becoming involved with sense deprivation?
3. What board does a lawyer from Pasadena ask Feynman to join?
4. What does Feynman discover was the boards biggest concern with the textbooks?
5. What is Feynman doing in the picture in the preface of the Feynman Lectures?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Feynman decide to stay with Caltech during the bidding war between Caltech and Cornell?
2. What problem does Feynman run into when he flies to North Carolina for a conference?
3. What does Feynman discover about particle decay theory?
4. Why is the experience of winning the Nobel Prize stressful to Feynman?
5. What does Feynman think is the reason Jews are overrepresented in the sciences?
6. What is Feynman's experience like when he serves on a committee to choose math textbooks for California?
7. Why does Professor Bacher want to play a trick on Feynman using Mrs. Smith who speaks Chinese?
8. Why does Feynman take art lessons from Jiyrayr Zorthian?
9. How does Feynman help the cab driver figure out which university to take him to for the conference in North Carolina?
10. Although "The Seven Percent Solution" discusses physics in a technical way, what is the main point of the chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways does Feynman approach life like he approaches physics? In what ways is his approach to life different than his approach to science?
Essay Topic 2
Why is the teenage Feynman frustrated by the lack of innovation (or interest in innovation) he finds in others?
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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