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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Testing Bloodhounds | Part 3: Los Alamos from Below.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word do the physics students like to tease the mathematics students about in the graduate lounge?
(a) Obvious.
(b) Construct.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Theorem.

2. What does Feynman get the philosophy students at Princeton to argue about?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) A car.
(d) A brick.

3. Feynman thinks Princeton is an imitation _________.
(a) MIT.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Ivy League.
(d) Oxford.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't Feynman like about working at his aunt's hotel?

2. Where is Feynman sent to do research before starting work at Los Alamos?

3. What is the name of the dance hall Feynman likes to go to during his freshman year at MIT?

4. Feynman has a great reputation for what with the math students at MIT and Princeton?

5. According to Feynman, all __________ stopped during the war.

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