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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 problem does Feynman have with giving lectures after he wins the Nobel Prize?
(a) Too many people attending.
(b) Too few people attending.
(c) People wanting to know his secrets.
(d) Physics students expecting favors.

2. According to Feynman, all __________ stopped during the war.
(a) Productivity.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Science.
(d) Engineering.

3. What almost causes Feynman to go back to Cornell after being at Caltech?
(a) Rent prices.
(b) Smog.
(c) Traffic.
(d) A woman.

4. What is a popular topic in the graduate lounge at Princeton?
(a) Food.
(b) Girls.
(c) Topology.
(d) Astronomy.

5. Feynman is involved in the problematic search for the right laws of _______________.
(a) Beta reflectors.
(b) Particle reflectors.
(c) Beta decay.
(d) Particle decay.

Short Answer Questions

1. While working at his aunt's hotel, Feynman learned that _________ was a very difficult thing in the real world.

2. What was the name of the bar Feynman frequents in Buffalo?

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

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

5. What does the reporter from Time magazine tell Feynman about the Nobel?

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