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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: The Dignified Professor | Part 4: Any Questions?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While working at his aunt's hotel, Feynman learned that _________ was a very difficult thing in the real world.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

2. Despite his degree in physics, Feynman works as what for the army during one summer?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Biologist.
(c) Gunner.
(d) Mechanical engineer.

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

4. What is the machine Feynman designs for the army intended to be used for?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Bombs.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Radar.

5. What theory does Feynman never work out, despite doing research on it for years?
(a) Quantum theory of potentials.
(b) Electrodynamics.
(c) Atomic energy.
(d) Gravitational interaction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Feynman compares the sounds of listening to the radio as a boy to what?

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 does Feynman do to entertain the girls at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet?

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