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

2. Where do the Las Vegas prostitutes learn the names of famous physicists?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Los Angles Times.
(c) People Magazine.
(d) Newsweek.

3. What does Ms. Eisenhart think Feynman is joking about at the Princeton tea?
(a) Requesting a soda instead of tea.
(b) Asking for coffee instead of tea.
(c) Having two lumps of sugar in his tea.
(d) Having cream and lemon in his tea.

4. 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.

5. Where is Feynman trying to get every summer when he usually gets stuck in Las Vegas?
(a) Tahoe.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Pacific Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?

2. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?

3. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.

4. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?

5. What is the booth number for the psychiatrist during Feynman's army physical after the war?

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