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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 object does Feynman's friend Paul at Princeton get him to walk around trying to figure out how to use it without pain for two weeks?
(a) Abacus.
(b) Lighter.
(c) Measuring tape.
(d) Knife.

2. Where are the top secret papers first kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Filing cabinets.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Underground.
(d) Bank safe.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Feynman deferred from the army again after the war?

2. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?

3. Besides chatting with gamblers, who else does Feynman like to meet in Las Vegas?

4. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?

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

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