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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: The Seven Percent Solution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the places Feynman tries to sleep his first night in Ithaca, NY?
(a) Couch in a hallway.
(b) Hotel.
(c) Airport.
(d) Pile of leaves.

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

3. Which scientist was "topnotch" at calculating at Los Alamos?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Paul Olum.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Hans Bethe.

4. What is the topic of the lecture Feynman is invited to give at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Biological relativity.
(b) Language development.
(c) Quantum electrodynamics.
(d) Quantum relativity.

5. What is the man from Japan that Feynman meets in a restaurant trying to sell?
(a) An Abacus.
(b) Calculators.
(c) Stationary.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the machine Feynman designs for the army intended to be used for?

2. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?

3. Where is the first place Feynman stays in Los Alamos?

4. Where is Feynman when Dr. Wheeler asks him to go to Japan?

5. How many students immediately volunteer to take part in the hypnotism demonstration at Princeton?

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