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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Integrals.
(d) Exponents.

2. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?
(a) He focuses on the physics.
(b) He uses hypnosis.
(c) He takes two aspirins and a coke.
(d) He drinks a shot.

3. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?
(a) Art History.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Astrophysics.
(d) Astronomy.

4. What is the name of the restaurant where Feynman strikes up a conversation with a painter?
(a) Papa's Place.
(b) Lou's Diner.
(c) Ma's Place.
(d) Ed's Diner.

5. How many desserts does the pantry lady leave for Feynman each night when he works at his aunt's hotel?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

6. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) DNA.
(c) Viruses.
(d) RNA.

7. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Theorem.
(b) Construct.
(c) Obvious.
(d) Trivial.

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the places Feynman tries to sleep his first night in Ithaca, NY?
(a) Hotel.
(b) Pile of leaves.
(c) Couch in a hallway.
(d) Airport.

9. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) A car.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) A brick.

10. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
(a) Golf.
(b) Their daughters.
(c) Football.
(d) Stock market.

11. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Seminars.
(b) Parties.
(c) Mixers.
(d) Smokers.

12. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?
(a) Rocket-propelled, nuclear missiles.
(b) Nuclear-propelled, rocket airplanes.
(c) Wind-propelled airplanes.
(d) Nucelar rockets.

13. How much does Cornell University pay Feynman to do the lecture series in Buffalo?
(a) $35 total.
(b) $45 total.
(c) $45 each week.
(d) $35 each week.

14. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.
(a) MIT.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Ivy League.
(d) Harvard.

15. What does Ms. Eisenhart think Feynman is joking about at the Princeton tea?
(a) Having two lumps of sugar in his tea.
(b) Requesting a soda instead of tea.
(c) Asking for coffee instead of tea.
(d) Having cream and lemon in his tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?

2. What is the name of the girl from the nightclub in Albuquerque that eventually sleeps with Feynman?

3. What object does Feynman's friend Paul at Princeton get him to walk around trying to figure out how to use it without pain for two weeks?

4. How much does Feynman have to pay for what the TWA hostess orders in the nightclub in Albuquerque?

5. What tool does young Feynman bring with him to fix the radio at his aunt's hotel?

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