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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Altered States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people call dragonflies when Feynman was growing up?
(a) Daring drats.
(b) Darning needles.
(c) Dragon stingers.
(d) Darn beasts.

2. How long would Feynman spend in the sensory deprivation tank each session?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 2.5 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 1.5 hours.

3. What equation does Feynman use to amaze the graduate mathematics students at Princeton?
(a) Series for pi.
(b) Sum of e.
(c) Sum of x.
(d) Series for e.

4. Why doesn't the stenographer at the conference in New York think Feynman could be a professor?
(a) He didn't sound very intelligent.
(b) He used too many scientific terms.
(c) He could understand him.
(d) He couldn't understand him.

5. What book does a teacher in high school give Feynman to study so he won't talk during class?
(a) Mathematics for the Practical Man.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Advanced Calculus.
(d) Advanced Chemistry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which language class does Feynman almost take because there was a pretty blond walking into it?

2. What is Feynman going to give a lecture on in Kyoto?

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

4. What does Feynman discover was the boards biggest concern with the textbooks?

5. What is the first document Feynman has to sign for the city college?

(see the answer key)

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