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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: A Different Box of Tools | Part 2: Mindreaders.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?
(a) Recite Mary Had a Little Lamb.
(b) Dance the can-can.
(c) Recite a poem.
(d) Sing an Italian opera.

3. What is the name of the dance hall Feynman likes to go to during his freshman year at MIT?
(a) Raymore and Saymore Ballroom.
(b) Raymour and Flannigan Dance Hall.
(c) Playmour Dance Hall.
(d) Raymour and Playmore Ballroom.

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

5. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Professors.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the restaurant where Feynman strikes up a conversation with a painter?

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

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

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

5. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?

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