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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. While working at his aunt's hotel, Feynman learned that _________ was a very difficult thing in the real world.
(a) Money.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Politics.

2. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?
(a) Magic.
(b) A code.
(c) Powers of observation.
(d) Hypnosis.

3. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Smokers.
(b) Parties.
(c) Mixers.
(d) Seminars.

4. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Physicists.
(d) Engineers.

5. In high school Feynman changed the trigonometry ____________ because he didn't like the way they looked.
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Answers.
(d) Equations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?

2. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?

3. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?

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

5. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?

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