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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 is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?
(a) John Wheeler.
(b) Henry Norris Russel.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Johnny Von Neumann.

2. What is a popular topic in the graduate lounge at Princeton?
(a) Food.
(b) Topology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Girls.

3. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?
(a) Uhm-uhm-uhm.
(b) Surely you're joking!
(c) Hmm-hmm-hmm.
(d) Heh-heh-heh-heh.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?

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

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

5. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?

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