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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Do You Care What Other People Think?.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Richard's father told him that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called what?
(a) A proton.
(b) A nucleus.
(c) A photon.
(d) A neutron.
2. The first time Richard ever said anything to the most popular girl at school was where?
(a) In a park.
(b) In class.
(c) During lunch break.
(d) At a dance.
3. What was the name of the girl that Richard has his first date with?
(a) Barbara.
(b) Lisa.
(c) Arlene.
(d) Angela.
4. In Part 1, Richard mentions kids playing in a field and one of them asking Richard to name a particular bird. What kind of bird did the child tell Richard the bird was?
(a) A red-crested woodpecker.
(b) A robin.
(c) A Spencer's warbler.
(d) A brown-throated thrush.
5. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Harold Gast and David Leff were what "types" of people?
(a) Math types.
(b) Literary types.
(c) Scientific types.
(d) Sports types.
Short Answer Questions
1. Richard tells a story of his little boy saying that he could no longer say a particular word because his "word bag" had run out of that word. What word was it?
2. 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 eyes?
3. Before Richard was born, his father told his mother that "if it's a boy, he's going to be a" what?
4. In Part 1, Richard mentions an artist friend who stated that scientists take beautiful flowers apart and then the flowers become what?
5. When Richard went away to college after completing high school, where did he go?
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