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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Do You Care What Other People Think?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard was a small boy, what did his father read to him?
(a) The Adventures of Huck Finn.
(b) The bible.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) The Encyclopaedia Britannica.

2. Richard mentions that a friend of his mother was trying to make a living during the Depression by doing what?
(a) Teaching dance.
(b) Tutoring kids.
(c) Running a day care for working moms.
(d) Selling baked goods.

3. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Harold Gast and David Leff were what "types" of people?
(a) Scientific types.
(b) Sports types.
(c) Math types.
(d) Literary types.

4. When Richard went away to college after completing high school, where did he go?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Yale.
(d) MIT.

5. When Richard was older, his father picked a leaf off a tree that had a little brown line in the shape of what?
(a) A triangle.
(b) A circle.
(c) The letter C.
(d) A question mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the pencils that Arlene sent to Richard?

2. While Richard and his father were examining the leaf that was picked off a tree he stated that the line is the beginning of a fly with what color eyes?

3. In Part 1, Richard mentions kids playing in a field and one of them asking Richard to name a particular bird. What kind of bird did the child tell Richard the bird was?

4. Richard's father told him that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called what?

5. When Richard took his first date out, what did they talk about playing?

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