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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Altered States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what kind of project does an airline in California offer Feynman a position as director of its laboratory?
(a) Nuclear-propelled, rocket airplanes.
(b) Nucelar rockets.
(c) Wind-propelled airplanes.
(d) Rocket-propelled, nuclear missiles.

2. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?
(a) Church service.
(b) A visit to the dentist.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Italian opera.

3. When Feynman starts at MIT, the fraternities have __________ to recruit pledges.
(a) Smokers.
(b) Seminars.
(c) Parties.
(d) Mixers.

4. Feynman does not like the Japanese language because it was too concerned with being _________.
(a) Precise.
(b) Polite.
(c) Accurate.
(d) Beautiful.

5. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?
(a) Essential object.
(b) Essence of being.
(c) Object essence.
(d) Objectional essentials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?

2. Ever since high school, Feynman worries about being ____________.

3. It took a certain amount of ___________ for Feynman to turn down requests to advise the government in the early sixties.

4. What does the hypnotist at Princeton get Feynman to do?

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

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