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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Testing Bloodhounds | Part 3: Los Alamos from Below.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?
(a) Exponents.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Integrals.

2. What doesn't Feynman like about working at his aunt's hotel?
(a) Tipping.
(b) The boss.
(c) Long hours.
(d) Smoking.

3. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Physicists.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Soldiers.

4. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) DNA.
(c) Viruses.
(d) RNA.

5. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Obvious.
(b) Construct.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Theorem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?

3. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.

4. Who tutored Feynman's father as a child?

5. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.

(see the answer key)

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