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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 does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?
(a) Cube roots.
(b) Quadratic equations.
(c) Drink shots.
(d) Stand on his head.

2. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Lighter fluid.
(c) Benzine.
(d) Charcoal.

3. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?
(a) Sum of x.
(b) Series for e.
(c) Series for pi.
(d) Sum of e.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which scientist was "topnotch" at calculating at Los Alamos?

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

3. What does the man who talks to Feynman by pool of his Las Vegas motel do for a living?

4. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?

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

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