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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. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?
(a) Books.
(b) Sheets.
(c) Towels.
(d) Coke bottles.

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

3. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?
(a) Their daughters.
(b) Golf.
(c) Football.
(d) Stock market.

4. In what year was Richard P. Feynman born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1912.

5. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?
(a) Magic.
(b) Powers of observation.
(c) A code.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?

2. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?

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

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

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

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