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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Check Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard was older, his father picked a leaf off a tree that had a little brown line in the shape of what?
(a) A triangle.
(b) The letter C.
(c) A circle.
(d) A question mark.

2. Richard talks about "contemporaries" of his that he hung out with. He mentions that Robert Stapler was what type of person?
(a) Scientific type.
(b) Literary type.
(c) Sports type.
(d) Math type.

3. Richard stated that when he was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, he and his friend, Bernie, both had what in their homes?
(a) Televisions.
(b) Labs.
(c) Central heat.
(d) Educated fathers.

4. Richard wrote a letter to Gweneth from the Grand Hotel. Where was the Grand Hotel located?
(a) Opole.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Radom.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

5. Richard attended some meetings in Poland inside the palace. What was painted on the ceiling of the palace?
(a) A blue sky and clouds.
(b) Horses.
(c) Birds and other flying creatures.
(d) Historic Polish leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. While on a tour inside the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, Richard spotted a physicist friend of his from where?

2. What was the bathtub made out of at the inn in Iseokitsu?

3. What temperature did the Thiokol engineers tell NASA the shuttle shouldn't fly below?

4. What did Richard's mother teach him were the highest forms of understanding?

5. Where is the Morton Thiokol factory located?

(see the answer key)

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