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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 does Nick the Greek use to win his bets?
(a) Superstitions.
(b) The odds.
(c) Betting on the table.
(d) Reputations.

2. What is needed to make the patent documents legal for the government?
(a) An exchange of money.
(b) An official seal.
(c) A signature.
(d) Approval from Congress.

3. Where does Feynman take art classes?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Caltech.
(c) Art Institure of L.A.
(d) Pasadena Art Museum.

4. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

5. Feynman says the conference he attends in New York to give a younger perspective on some position papers was worse than a _____________.
(a) Dentist appointment.
(b) First date.
(c) Rorschach test.
(d) Psychological evaluation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a popular topic in the graduate lounge at Princeton?

2. Feynman is involved in the problematic search for the right laws of _______________.

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

4. What is the machine Feynman designs for the army intended to be used for?

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

(see the answer key)

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