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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: But is it Art?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Feynman try to teach his friend Jirayr Zorthian?
(a) Art history.
(b) Biology.
(c) Math.
(d) Physics.

2. What Brazilian city is Feynman stuck in for a few days before he can get to Rio?
(a) Lattes.
(b) Porto Neches.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Recife.

3. Feynman would argue with his friend Jirayr Zorthian that artists don't have any subject because they lost their ___________.
(a) Sanity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Perspective.

4. What could Feynman draw in high school art class?
(a) Houses.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Pyramids in deserts.
(d) Stacks of cubes.

5. What is the machine Feynman designs for the army intended to be used for?
(a) Bombs.
(b) Radar.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Tanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of the lecture Feynman is invited to give at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?

2. Feynman's friend Jirayr Zorthian would argue that scientist destroyed the beauty of nature when they turned it into _________________.

3. Where does Feynman spend a summer working for the army?

4. Who first gets Feynman interested in South America?

5. Where does Feynman take art classes?

(see the answer key)

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