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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Is Electricity Fire?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Dragon stingers.
(b) Daring drats.
(c) Darn beasts.
(d) Darning needles.

2. Where does Feynman want to stay while in Japan?
(a) A luxurious resort.
(b) A European-style hotel.
(c) A private home.
(d) A Japanese-style hotel.

3. What is the topic of the lecture Feynman is invited to give at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Quantum electrodynamics.
(b) Biological relativity.
(c) Quantum relativity.
(d) Language development.

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

5. What does Feynman decide to do about the money from the lecture at the city college?
(a) Sign the last document.
(b) Steal it.
(c) Demand it without signing.
(d) Forfeit it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Feynman when he discovers he can distinguish good art from bad art?

2. How many signatures does Feynman get to before he gives the lecture at the city college?

3. What is the name of the singer at the nightclub in Albuquerque who introduces Feynman to girls?

4. Why doesn't the stenographer at the conference in New York think Feynman could be a professor?

5. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?

(see the answer key)

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