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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: The Seven Percent Solution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?
(a) Plastic cups.
(b) Plastic-coated pens.
(c) Mechanical pencils.
(d) Plastic-coated cameras.

2. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?
(a) 9 percent.
(b) 12 percent.
(c) 7 percent.
(d) 3 percent.

3. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?
(a) Recite Mary Had a Little Lamb.
(b) Dance the can-can.
(c) Sing an Italian opera.
(d) Recite a poem.

4. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?
(a) The Birds.
(b) Spellbound.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) Rear Window.

5. Where is Feynman asked to give a series of lectures in Buffalo?
(a) Mohawk Airlines.
(b) Robinson Airlines.
(c) A physics laboratory.
(d) An aeronautics laboratory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?

3. Where do the Las Vegas prostitutes learn the names of famous physicists?

4. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.

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

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