Not necessarily. Tests were on the honor system at Caltech (and I suppose still are). You typically took them in your dorm room.

Heh. I remember one open-book midterm in particular: my score of 56% got a B.

Michael Nielsen's conducting a different sort of Google 101 here: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503

If it is true I'm sure that the student would have gotten at least a passing grade if was willing to risk using Feynman.

Or would have no chance of passing without him.

Since it's an open-book exam, it's likely going to take a lot of thoughtful work.