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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Richard and his father were examining the leaf that was picked off a tree he stated that the line is the beginning of a fly with what color of wings?

2. What is located at the front of the space shuttle orbiter?

3. When Richard was walking his first date home, he complimented her on her pretty what?

4. What day of the week did the space shuttle have the accident?

5. How old was Henry Bethe when he talked to Richard before a lecture by Konrad Lorenz?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Richard's quest to test his internal clock while counting. How do you think this single experiment influenced RIchard for the rest of his life? Do you think this simple test of numbers influence those around Richard in some way? Describe what Richard's friends thought about this research.

Essay Topic 2

Describe General Kutyna. Describe what things about General Kutyna appealed to you as a reader and why he and Richard got along so well? Use specific examples from the book to explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book the reader can learn interesting facts about things they may not have been aware of previous to reading the book. What things in the book are educational and what things did you learn from the book? Were there any subjects, lessons learned, or scientific explanations that were something new that you've never heard of before? If so, clarify what information you found that was so interesting or intriguing.

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