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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 board does a lawyer from Pasadena ask Feynman to join?
(a) State Curriculum Commission.
(b) National Curriculum Committee.
(c) State Board of Education.
(d) California Textbook Initiative.

2. Who does Feynman have to write a report for about his time in Brazil?
(a) Physics Institute.
(b) Brazilian Academy of Science.
(c) State Department.
(d) Cornell University.

3. What does Feynman learn signaled a social mistake at Princeton?
(a) Heh-heh-heh-heh.
(b) Surely you're joking!
(c) Uhm-uhm-uhm.
(d) Hmm-hmm-hmm.

4. How much does the science teacher offer Feynman to give a lecture?
(a) $50.
(b) $600.
(c) $60.
(d) $500.

5. Who is the head of Feynman's department at Cornell?
(a) Professor Gibbs.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Professor Lowell.
(d) Bob Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Feynman's landlady in Ithaca come to his apartment to listen to?

2. What do the philosophy students keep repeating during a lunch lecture at Princeton?

3. Why is Feynman deferred from the army again after the war?

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

5. What is the name of the musician who gives Feynman lessons after they meet on the Sunset Strip?

(see the answer key)

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