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

2. When Richard stood to accept his award from the American Association of Physics Teachers, he told the crowd that instead of talking about teaching he is going to talk about what?
(a) Why woman should rule the world.
(b) The structure of the proton.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) The existance of other galaxies.

3. 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?
(a) "Don't bug me, man!"
(b) "I've never heard of a woman scientist who knows more than me."
(c) "Please stop the nonsense!"
(d) "What are you talking about?"

4. The first time Richard ever said anything to the most popular girl at school was where?
(a) During lunch break.
(b) At a dance.
(c) In a park.
(d) In class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard looked in the garden near his room at the small family inn in Iseokitsu, he noticed what color of tree frog?

2. The head of NASA had worked at the Hughes Aircraft Company where Richard had given lectures on which day of the week?

3. Richard states that he joined a specific group because Arlene had joined that group. What kind of group was it?

4. On his way back from Brazil, where did Richard stop at?

5. When Richard was studying counting and the different things he can do while counting, he discovered that no one can do what while counting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Richard's father make the Tyrannosaurus Rex more understandable and more real to Richard when he was young?

5. What beauty did Richard state he could see in a flower?

6. How did Richard learn about algebra?

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

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

9. What did Kyoto University tell Richard when he told them he had no paper to give at the conference?

10. What happened when Gweneth realized that she had lost a roll of film?

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