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

2. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?
(a) Stand on his head.
(b) Drink shots.
(c) Quadratic equations.
(d) Cube roots.

3. On what topic does Feynman ask a question on behalf of Martin Block to the other top physicists?
(a) Parity freedom.
(b) Quantum violation.
(c) Freedom of liquidity.
(d) Violation of parity.

4. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?
(a) Recite poetry.
(b) Light a match.
(c) Walk around the room.
(d) Cluck like a chicken.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman's dilemma when he arrives at the airport to go to the conference at the University of North Carolina?

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

3. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?

4. In high school Feynman changed the trigonometry ____________ because he didn't like the way they looked.

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

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