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

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

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

4. What does Feynman discover about the study of biology?
(a) There is an answer for everything.
(b) It is too easy.
(c) It is just like physics.
(d) There are lots of things no one knew.

5. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Construct.
(b) Theorem.
(c) Obvious.
(d) Trivial.

Short Answer Questions

1. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.

2. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?

3. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?

4. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?

5. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?

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