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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. What is the one thing missing from the cargo cult sciences, according to Feynman?
(a) Experiments.
(b) Consistency.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Proof.

2. What is Feynman going to give a lecture on in Kyoto?
(a) American culture.
(b) Japanese culture.
(c) Liquid nitrogen.
(d) Liquid helium.

3. Feynman is involved in the problematic search for the right laws of _______________.
(a) Beta reflectors.
(b) Particle decay.
(c) Particle reflectors.
(d) Beta decay.

4. What business was Feynman's father in?
(a) Science.
(b) Farming.
(c) Education.
(d) Uniforms.

5. What musicians in the ethnological records that are given to Feynman does he admire the most?
(a) French cellists.
(b) Watusi drummers.
(c) Italian sopranos.
(d) Belgian pianists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman always very careless about when he goes on a trip?

2. How long would Feynman spend in the sensory deprivation tank each session?

3. Feynman says the conference he attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers was worse than a _____________.

4. Feynman would argue with his friend Jirayr Zorthian that artists don't have any subject because they lost their ___________.

5. Where does Feynman want to stay while in Japan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Feynman mean by "cargo cults"?

2. How does Feynman immerse himself in Japanese culture while attending a conference in Japan?

3. Who introduces Feynman to the sense deprivation tank?

4. Why is Mrs. Smith flustered when Feynman speaks to her in "fake Chinese"?

5. What convinces Feynman that Japanese culture is more civilized than American culture?

6. How does Feynman help the cab driver figure out which university to take him to for the conference in North Carolina?

7. Why is Feynman asked to give a lecture on Mayan math at UCLA?

8. What does Feynman realize when he befriends some Las Vegas showgirls?

9. Why does Feynman decide to learn about Mayan mathematics?

10. Who teaches Feynman to have "out of body" experience in the deprivation tank?

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