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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Meeeeeeeeee! | Part 2: A Map of the Cat?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
(a) Stock market.
(b) Football.
(c) Golf.
(d) Their daughters.

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

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

5. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Mixers.
(b) Smokers.
(c) Seminars.
(d) Parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Eisenhart think Feynman is joking about at the Princeton tea?

2. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?

3. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?

4. While working at his aunt's hotel, Feynman learned that _________ was a very difficult thing in the real world.

5. What tool does young Feynman bring with him to fix the radio at his aunt's hotel?

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