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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Richard's immediate reaction when he found out where the investigation of the shuttle accident was going to be?
(a) To ask his wife to come along with him.
(b) To become involved as much as possible.
(c) Not to do it.
(d) To see who else he knew on the committee.

2. Richard told the women who were protesting that they should be concerned about the cop in his story. Why?
(a) Because cops are corrupt.
(b) Because she was a woman.
(c) Because it is not known whether the cop was a man or a woman.
(d) Because he was harrassing a woman.

3. What was the name of the girl that Richard has his first date with?
(a) Angela.
(b) Lisa.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Arlene.

4. What did Richard invite his first date to do with him?
(a) Go to a dance.
(b) Go to a play.
(c) Go out to eat at a fancy restaurant.
(d) Go to the movies.

5. When Richard's father started to read from Richard's calculus book, what did he find?
(a) That they were wrong in a particular principle they are trying to teach.
(b) That it made perfect sense.
(c) That he knew the author of the book.
(d) That it's confusing.

6. 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?
(a) A brown-throated thrush.
(b) A red-crested woodpecker.
(c) A robin.
(d) A Spencer's warbler.

7. When the taxi driver took Richard around an East Indian neighborhood, he pointed out two women he admired who gathered enough money to buy what?
(a) A car.
(b) A television.
(c) A bigger house.
(d) A sewing machine.

8. What type of joints are sealed at the Morton Thiokol factory?
(a) Field joints.
(b) Factory joints.
(c) Link joints.
(d) Energy joints.

9. Richard states that he joined a specific group because Arlene had joined that group. What kind of group was it?
(a) An art group.
(b) A math group.
(c) A ballet group.
(d) A speech group.

10. Where is the Morton Thiokol factory located?
(a) California.
(b) Texas.
(c) Florida.
(d) Utah.

11. At the beginning of Part 2: Preliminaries, Richard states that he'd be talking a lot about what?
(a) NASA.
(b) Thiokol.
(c) The Kennedy Space Center.
(d) O-rings.

12. 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 of wings?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Silver.
(d) Green.

13. Where was the place that Richard mentions that all people from New York City go in the summer?
(a) Fire Island.
(b) Central Park.
(c) The Catskill Mountains.
(d) The Hamptons.

14. The secretary to the queen had a yard that was not yet landscaped except for what?
(a) A playground.
(b) A horse enclosure.
(c) A flower garden.
(d) A vegetable garden.

15. What was the bathtub made out of at the inn in Iseokitsu?
(a) Fiberglass.
(b) Tin.
(c) Steel.
(d) Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1: Getting Ahead, Richard was returning from Brazil by what?

2. What did Richard's mother teach him were the highest forms of understanding?

3. After Richard graduated from college where did he decide to further his education?

4. In what year did the space shuttle accident occur?

5. A lady across the street from the inn in Iseokitsu gave Richard what?

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