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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: The Dignified Professor | Part 4: Any Questions?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a popular topic in the graduate lounge at Princeton?
(a) Food.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Topology.
(d) Girls.

3. In high school Feynman changed the trigonometry ____________ because he didn't like the way they looked.
(a) Symbols.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Answers.
(d) Equations.

4. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Darn beasts.
(b) Darning needles.
(c) Daring drats.
(d) Dragon stingers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?

3. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?

4. As a kid, what does Feynman observe under his microscope?

5. During a one-year sabbatical, what does Feynman work on in a biology lab?

(see the answer key)

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