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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 special ceremony did the students in Sweden have for the Nobel Prize winner?

2. Besides chatting with gamblers, who else does Feynman like to meet in Las Vegas?

3. What musicians in the ethnological records that are given to Feynman does he admire the most?

4. Where doesFeynman give lectures every Wednesday?

5. What does the reporter from Time magazine tell Feynman about the Nobel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Feynman's refusal to sign a fourteenth signature create confusion for the college's accounting department?

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

4. Who introduces Feynman to the sense deprivation tank?

5. Why is Feynman mistaken for a Native American performing a tribal ritual?

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

7. Why is Mrs. Smith flustered when Feynman speaks to her in "fake Chinese"?

8. Who teaches Feynman to have "out of body" experience in the deprivation tank?

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

10. What stipulation does Feynman make before agreeing to lecture at a local city college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think was Feynman's purpose for writing this book and how would you characterize his ego?

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

Discuss Feynman's experiences in the field of Biology. What motivates Feynman to explore subjects out of his field of expertise?

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