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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. Richard talked about himself and Murray keeping each other awake on the plane arguing, but then they woke up over where?
(a) Africa.
(b) Europe.
(c) India.
(d) Greenland.

2. How far was the shrine from the inn where Richard stayed in Iseokitsu?
(a) About two miles.
(b) About half a mile.
(c) About five miles.
(d) About one mile.

3. Richard tells a story about an old friend in Los Alamos calling him to tell him some sad news. The sad news was that who had died?
(a) Herman.
(b) Arlene.
(c) Shirley.
(d) William.

4. When Richard and his father were examining the leaf that was picked off a tree he stated that the line is the beginning of what color of fly?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard was attending graduate school, a guy walked in on him holding a pot in one hand and stirring with the other. What was in the pot that Richard was stirring?

2. What did Richard say Arlene played beautifully?

3. What was the name of the girl that Richard has his first date with?

4. Besides the name that Richard and Gweneth gave to their dog, what other pet name did Richard call him in his letter?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Richard describe the Hotel Amigo in Brussels?

2. 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?

3. What did the policeman do while Richard followed the procession?

4. Why was Richard told that it was all right when one speaker at the conference went over his time limit?

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

6. What happens to the large central part of the shuttle a few minutes after a shuttle launch?

7. 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?

8. At the end of Part 1: The Making of a Scientist, Richard mentions his mother. What does he say about her?

9. Why did Richard tell Gweneth and Michelle that he had to write with a paper on his lap when he wrote his letter from the Royal Olympic Hotel in Athens?

10. What did Richard tell his wife about the Palace of Culture and Science?

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