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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Judging Books by Their Covers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?
(a) Books.
(b) Coke bottles.
(c) Towels.
(d) Sheets.

2. Who first gets Feynman interested in South America?
(a) A hitchhicker.
(b) A waitress.
(c) A mechanic.
(d) His wife.

3. Besides chatting with gamblers, who else does Feynman like to meet in Las Vegas?
(a) Dealers.
(b) Pit bosses.
(c) Waitresses.
(d) Show girls.

4. What is needed to make the patent documents legal for the government?
(a) Approval from Congress.
(b) A signature.
(c) An official seal.
(d) An exchange of money.

5. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) A car.
(d) A brick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Feynman invited to Washington, DC by the Secretary of the Army?

2. What does Feynman discover was the boards biggest concern with the textbooks?

3. What is the "disease" of the middle age that Feynman is afflicted with?

4. Why doesn't the stenographer at the conference in New York think Feynman could be a professor?

5. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?

(see the answer key)

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