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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 do the Las Vegas prostitutes learn the names of famous physicists?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) People Magazine.
(c) Los Angles Times.
(d) Time Magazine.

2. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.
(a) Full soup bowls.
(b) Upside down glasses full of water.
(c) The salt shaker.
(d) Old gum under the table.

3. What is Feynman going to give a lecture on in Kyoto?
(a) Liquid nitrogen.
(b) American culture.
(c) Japanese culture.
(d) Liquid helium.

4. Which language class does Feynman almost take because there was a pretty blond walking into it?
(a) French.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spanish.

5. What does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?
(a) Dance the can-can.
(b) Recite Mary Had a Little Lamb.
(c) Recite a poem.
(d) Sing an Italian opera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Feynman's study of philosophy while at MIT causes him to do research on what?

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

3. What does Feynman's father tell him that the carnival mindreaders use?

4. What could Feynman draw in high school art class?

5. What does the Japanese salesman in Brazil challenge Feynman to do?

(see the answer key)

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