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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. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Exponents.
(d) Integrals.

2. Which idea of Feynman's did the government patent official tell him had already been taken?
(a) Airplane.
(b) Electrical plant.
(c) Rocket.
(d) Submarine.

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

4. Where are the top secret papers first kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Filing cabinets.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Underground.
(d) Bank safe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the dancer from the Flamingo tell Feynman she was?

2. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?

3. What is the name of the girl from the nightclub in Albuquerque that eventually sleeps with Feynman?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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