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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Certainly, Mr. Big.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does Feynman use to "trick" people at Princeton into thinking he could do fast math?
(a) Approximate method.
(b) Angles method.
(c) Articulate methiod.
(d) Addition method.

2. What is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Calculators.
(c) An Abacus.
(d) Stationary.

3. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Charcoal.
(c) Lighter fluid.
(d) Benzine.

4. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?
(a) Exponents.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Integrals.
(d) Calculus.

5. Who tutored Feynman's father as a child?
(a) A mindreader.
(b) A mathematician.
(c) A magician.
(d) A hypnotists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the top secret papers first kept at Los Alamos?

2. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?

3. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?

4. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?

5. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.

(see the answer key)

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