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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. How many people lost their lives on the space shuttle?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Nine.

2. 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?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Mites.
(d) Protein.

3. In Part 1, Richard mentions an artist friend who stated that scientists take beautiful flowers apart and then the flowers become what?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Broken.
(c) Dull.
(d) Deep.

4. Besides the name that Richard and Gweneth gave to their dog, what other pet name did Richard call him in his letter?
(a) Snork.
(b) Can-can.
(c) Poopsie.
(d) Poochie Moo-moo.

5. How old was the Grand Hotel where Richard was staying?
(a) 3 years old.
(b) 12 years old.
(c) 26 years old.
(d) 50 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far was the shrine from the inn where Richard stayed in Iseokitsu?

2. Who accompanied Richard on his trip to Kyoto?

3. When Richard took a taxi to the East Indian neighborhood, the taxi driver pointed out a man sitting on the front steps of a concrete block house and stated that the man's son was studying medicine where?

4. Richard attended some meetings in Poland inside the palace. What was painted on the ceiling of the palace?

5. When Richard was little and in a high chair, what did his father bring home for him to play with that were of various colors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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