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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: A Different Box of Tools | Part 2: Mindreaders.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) Electrons.
(b) A brick.
(c) A car.
(d) Nothingness.

3. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?
(a) Italian opera.
(b) Church service.
(c) A visit to the dentist.
(d) The ocean.

4. What tool does young Feynman bring with him to fix the radio at his aunt's hotel?
(a) Pliers.
(b) Electric coil.
(c) Wrench.
(d) Screwdriver.

5. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?
(a) Astrophysics.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Art History.
(d) Astronomy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?

3. Who tutored Feynman's father as a child?

4. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.

5. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?

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