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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Feynman graduates from MIT there are no jobs for __________.

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

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

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