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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. Feynman gets a B+ on a English paper about ___________ even though he wrote about another topic.
(a) Faust.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Huxley.
(d) Hemingway.

2. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

3. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.
(a) Physicists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Soldiers.

4. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?
(a) Essence of being.
(b) Objectional essentials.
(c) Object essence.
(d) Essential object.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Feynman discover about the study of biology?

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

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

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