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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. How does Feynman combat his nervousness while giving his first technical lecture to famous scientists?
(a) He focuses on the physics.
(b) He uses hypnosis.
(c) He drinks a shot.
(d) He takes two aspirins and a coke.

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

3. What theory does Feynman never work out, despite doing research on it for years?
(a) Quantum theory of potentials.
(b) Electrodynamics.
(c) Gravitational interaction.
(d) Atomic energy.

4. How much does Feynman have to pay for what the TWA hostess orders in the nightclub in Albuquerque?
(a) Six dollars.
(b) Sixteen dollars.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A hundred dollars.

5. By how much is Feynman's new theory that he discovers during the Rochester Conference off?
(a) 12 percent.
(b) 7 percent.
(c) 3 percent.
(d) 9 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?

2. What does Feynman spend his dollar on that he received for selling his government patent?

3. Who does Feynman get into a discussion with about the ethics of education?

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

5. What is Feynman's salary at Cornell?

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