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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. On his way back from Brazil, where did Richard stop at?
(a) Tobago.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Venezuela.

2. When the solid-fuel rockets separate from the shuttle, where do they fall?
(a) Into the atmosphere and then they disintegrate.
(b) Into the sea.
(c) They float into space.
(d) On barren land.

3. What is located at the back end of the space shuttle orbiter?
(a) The engines.
(b) The fuel tanks.
(c) The cargo bay.
(d) The space for the crew.

4. 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?
(a) Jell-O.
(b) Ice cubes.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of joints are made at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida?

2. How old was the Grand Hotel where Richard was staying?

3. When Richard's father was teaching him about birds and why they peck at their feathers, what did his father tell him the lice eat flakes of?

4. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Robert Stapler was what type of person?

5. Richard received a letter from a feminist group after a few of his lectures were published. What was Richard's short reply to this letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William Graham, the head of NASA, know Richard?

2. What did the ballroom in the palace in Brussels look like where Richard had to wait 20 minutes for the king and queen?

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

4. What did the librarian say when Richard tried to check out the book, Calculus for the Practical Man, and who did he say the book is for?

5. When Richard speaks about writing an essay for the regents examination, he states that his literary friends were always "throwing the bull." What does this mean, and why does Richard decide to do it?

6. When Richard heard about miracles at the temple, he tried to explain the miracles with natural phenomena. What was one of the miracles he says he could never figure out?

7. How did Richard's friend from Los Alamos explain to him how she may have mistakenly thought that he knew Herman?

8. When did Richard finally cry after his wife passed away?

9. What happened when Arlene found a summer job in Scituate, taking care of children to be close to Richard?

10. In Getting Ahead, how did Richard reply to the taxi driver when asked why his "people" weren't getting anywhere?

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