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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard was studying counting and the different things he can do while counting, he discovered that no one can do what while counting?
(a) Dream.
(b) Sing a rock song.
(c) Type an essay.
(d) Read out loud.

2. When Richard bought a new pen at a kiosk, he was given two copies of the receipt. Why did the receipt say it was necessary to keep it?
(a) To keep track of where the item was purchased.
(b) To avoid paying US customs duties.
(c) To show as proof as purchase.
(d) To keep as a souvenir.

3. When the rabbi asked Richard, "if it is so traumatic for you, why do you come to Sunday school?" What did Richard say?
(a) "Because I'm lost."
(b) "Because my parents make me."
(c) "Because I want to please God."
(d) "Because religion is still a part of me."

4. Richard states that when he saw equations in his mind, he saw the letters in color. In what color did he see the letter N?
(a) Light pink.
(b) Fire engine red.
(c) Violet-bluish.
(d) Vibrant yellow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How high were the ceilings in the Grand Hotel room that Richard was staying in?

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

3. When Richard's father started to read from Richard's calculus book, what did he find?

4. When Richard attended a meeting of physicists organized by John Wheeler, what was the name of the country club where they held the meetings?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What other projects did Richard have going on at the time when he was asked to participate in the Challenger investigation?

2. Describe what happened when Richard showed up at Barbara's house to take her out on their date.

3. When Richard was in graduate school at Princeton, there was a psychology paper that came up about controlling the "time sense" in the brain. How did the author of this paper test his theory?

4. When Richard is describing the shuttle, what does he say is the large, central part of the shuttle, and what does this part contain?

5. When Richard was asked to give a speech after the mayor had spoken at the dedication ceremony of the shrine, what did he say?

6. Describe the auditorium in the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland that Richard took a tour of.

7. After Richard finished philosophizing with the taxi driver, where did the taxi driver take him?

8. What did Richard's friends, Al Hibbs and Dick Davies, tell Richard he should do about being asked to be on the investigation committee of the Challenger accident?

9. What did Richard tell Gweneth he'd be doing for six months, and what did he do after he said this to her?

10. Describe Richard's hotel room at the Grand Hotel in Warsaw, Poland.

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