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

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) A car.
(b) Electrons.
(c) A brick.
(d) Nothingness.

3. What product does the Metaplast Corporation make that eventually causes the company to close down?
(a) Plastic cups.
(b) Plastic-coated cameras.
(c) Plastic-coated pens.
(d) Mechanical pencils.

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

5. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Professor Lowell.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Professor Gibbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?

2. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?

3. Feynman's friend Bob Wilson tells him he has been hired to work on a secret project doing what?

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

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

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