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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: You Just Ask Them?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the scientist that Feynman worked for at General Electric after the war?
(a) Frank Oppenheimer.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Albert Einstein.

3. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?
(a) Spellbound.
(b) Casablanca.
(c) Rear Window.
(d) The Birds.

4. According to Feynman, all __________ stopped during the war.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Productivity.
(c) Science.
(d) Engineering.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?

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

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the places Feynman tries to sleep his first night in Ithaca, NY?

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

5. Feynman gets a B+ on a English paper about ___________ even though he wrote about another topic.

(see the answer key)

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