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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. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?
(a) Only Feynman.
(b) Four.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Hundreds.

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

3. What does Feynman spend his dollar on that he received for selling his government patent?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Socks.
(d) Beer.

4. What does Feynman try to teach his friend Jirayr Zorthian?
(a) Physics.
(b) Art history.
(c) Biology.
(d) Math.

5. What method does Feynman use to "trick" people at Princeton into thinking he could do fast math?
(a) Angles method.
(b) Approximate method.
(c) Articulate methiod.
(d) Addition method.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number in the Mayan document does Feynman come across again and again?

2. What does Feynman discover about the study of biology?

3. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?

4. Who is the women at the nightclub in Albuquerque that Feynman befriends married to?

5. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?

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