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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Is Electricity Fire?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Chinese-speaking Caucasian at the Caltech house party?
(a) Mrs. Smith.
(b) Mrs. Jones.
(c) Mr. Jones.
(d) Mr. Smith.

3. What does Feynman decide to do about the money from the lecture at the city college?
(a) Demand it without signing.
(b) Steal it.
(c) Sign the last document.
(d) Forfeit it.

4. While at MIT, Feynman annoys waitresses by leaving his tip in ________________.
(a) Old gum under the table.
(b) The salt shaker.
(c) Upside down glasses full of water.
(d) Full soup bowls.

5. While staying in Syracuse, who gives Feynman good advice about figuring out a complicated theory?
(a) His sister.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color paint do Feynman and the professional painter argue about?

2. What do all the fathers at the Girl Scout father-daughter banquet talk about?

3. What does Feynman take for one of his humanities credits at MIT?

4. How does Feynman solve his dilemma at the airport when he goes to the conference at the University of North Carolina?

5. In what year does Feynman attend a conference at the University of North Carolina?

(see the answer key)

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