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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. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Dragon stingers.
(b) Daring drats.
(c) Darning needles.
(d) Darn beasts.

2. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?
(a) Art History.
(b) Astrophysics.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Astrology.

3. Feynman's friend Jirayr Zorthian would argue that scientist destroyed the beauty of nature when they turned it into _________________.
(a) Weapons.
(b) Theorems.
(c) Mathematical equations.
(d) Dry lectures.

4. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?
(a) Charcoal.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Benzine.
(d) Lighter fluid.

5. Besides chatting with gamblers, who else does Feynman like to meet in Las Vegas?
(a) Pit bosses.
(b) Dealers.
(c) Show girls.
(d) Waitresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who talks to Feynman by pool of his Las Vegas motel do for a living?

2. Where is the first place Feynman stays in Los Alamos?

3. What business was Feynman's father in?

4. What is the name of the host of the house party Feynman attends shorty after arriving at Caltech?

5. Feynman told the woman from Denmark after the Nobel dinner that they could talk about physics because everybody ___________.

(see the answer key)

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