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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. Where is Feynman asked to give a series of lectures in Buffalo?
(a) A physics laboratory.
(b) Robinson Airlines.
(c) An aeronautics laboratory.
(d) Mohawk Airlines.

2. What is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?
(a) Stationary.
(b) An Abacus.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Calculators.

3. Where is Feynman when he discovers he can distinguish good art from bad art?
(a) Pasadena Art Museum.
(b) Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(c) Basilica.
(d) Sistene Chapel.

4. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Feynman end up publishing a paper with about his new theory?

2. What does Nick the Greek use to win his bets?

3. Which scientist was "topnotch" at calculating at Los Alamos?

4. What is the topic of the conference at the University of North Carolina that Feynman attends?

5. What is the name of the restaurant where Feynman strikes up a conversation with a painter?

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