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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: The Seven Percent Solution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the dance hall Feynman likes to go to during his freshman year at MIT?
(a) Playmour Dance Hall.
(b) Raymour and Flannigan Dance Hall.
(c) Raymour and Playmore Ballroom.
(d) Raymore and Saymore Ballroom.

2. In what language does Feynman give his lecture in at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) Portuguese.

3. Feynman's friend Bob Wilson tells him he has been hired to work on a secret project doing what?
(a) Separating the isotopes of uranium.
(b) Separating electrons from protons.
(c) Dividing protons of uranium.
(d) Dividing atomic energy into subparts.

4. Which scientist helps Feynman work out which way the difference goes in his new theory?
(a) Gell-Mann.
(b) Wu.
(c) Boehem.
(d) Christy.

5. Where does Feynman spend his first year of teaching at Caltech?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. While staying in Syracuse, who gives Feynman good advice about figuring out a complicated theory?

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

3. What object does Feynman's friend Paul at Princeton get him to walk around trying to figure out how to use it without pain for two weeks?

4. What does Feynman discover about the study of biology?

5. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?

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