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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 does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Art History.
(c) Astrophysics.
(d) Astrology.

2. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1943.

3. What does Ms. Eisenhart think Feynman is joking about at the Princeton tea?
(a) Having cream and lemon in his tea.
(b) Asking for coffee instead of tea.
(c) Requesting a soda instead of tea.
(d) Having two lumps of sugar in his tea.

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

5. While working at his aunt's hotel, Feynman learned that _________ was a very difficult thing in the real world.
(a) Innovation.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?

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

3. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?

4. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.

5. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?

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