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

2. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1918.

3. What tool does young Feynman bring with him to fix the radio at his aunt's hotel?
(a) Electric coil.
(b) Pliers.
(c) Wrench.
(d) Screwdriver.

4. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.
(a) MIT.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Ivy League.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the dance hall Feynman likes to go to during his freshman year at MIT?

2. What doesn't Feynman like about working at his aunt's hotel?

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

4. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?

5. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?

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