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

2. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?
(a) Advanced Calculus.
(b) Advanced Chemistry.
(c) Mathematics for the Practical Man.
(d) The Bible.

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

4. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?
(a) He drinks a shot.
(b) He takes two aspirins and a coke.
(c) He focuses on the physics.
(d) He uses hypnosis.

5. What is the name of the town where Feynman was born?
(a) Rock Harbor.
(b) Queens.
(c) Far Rockaway.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What theory does Feynman never work out, despite doing research on it for years?

3. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?

4. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?

5. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?

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