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1) Help Joe use the scientific method to get dressed for school. Order the steps by putting the number 1 to 4 in the box.

	"I bet it's cold outside, I better wear a sweater"
	"Ahh, nice and toasty!"
	Joe gets up and feel cold.
	Joe puts his sweater on and steps outside.

2) Feynman talks about an "expanding frontier of ignorance". What does he mean?

	A)	People are getting dumber
	B)	The farther west we go into the frontier the less we remember
	C)	The more we learn, the more we realize there is so much more out there that we don't know.
	D)	Since the universe is expanding, ignorance is too.

3) According to Feynman, how do we test knowledge?

	A)	By experiment
	B)	With the SAT test
	C)	By leaving it alone for a while
	D)	By checking it against other facts

4) Feynman's description of the scientific method includes only three parts, instead of the four we started with. What are his three parts?

	A)	Observation, hypothesis and experiment
	B)	Observation, reason and experiment
	C)	Observation, hypothesis and conclusion
	D)	Experiment, experiment and experiment

5) Feynman talks about a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game... all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. This is like science (and especially astronomy) because

	A)	We can't move the stars around to see what happens, or change any of the details of the universe; all we can do is watch
	B)	Someone will win and someone will lose
	C)	Just watching is easier and cheaper than anything else.
	D)	Everything is just a game

6) Feynman discusses the history and development of the body of knowledge we call "Science". What is your

understanding of "science" - what is science to you, what do we try to learn and why do we try to learn?

7) Feynman talks about watching a game and figuring out the rules being much like science. Is that valid? Is there a better way? Give an example from your life of something you were able to figure out by observing.