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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: You Just Ask Them?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man in charge of the government patent office while Feynman is in Los Alamos?
(a) Captain Jones.
(b) Captain Smith.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Hans Bethe.

2. What is the name of the dance hall Feynman likes to go to during his freshman year at MIT?
(a) Raymore and Saymore Ballroom.
(b) Raymour and Playmore Ballroom.
(c) Raymour and Flannigan Dance Hall.
(d) Playmour Dance Hall.

3. Feynman gets a B+ on a English paper about ___________ even though he wrote about another topic.
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Faust.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Huxley.

4. In what year does Feynman's wife Arlene die?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.

5. What is the name of the movie with a psychiatrist that Feynman thinks of during his army physical after the war?
(a) The Birds.
(b) Spellbound.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) Rear Window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Feynman asked to give a series of lectures in Buffalo?

2. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.

3. What is the name of the physicist Feynman works with one summer during graduate school?

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

5. What does Feynman spend his dollar on that he received for selling his government patent?

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