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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. What does Feynman use to do his first scent experiment with his wife in her hospital room?
(a) Books.
(b) Sheets.
(c) Coke bottles.
(d) Towels.

3. What idea does a guy have at the Washington DC cocktail party given by the Secretary of the Army?
(a) Using physicists to designing tanks.
(b) Refueling tanks by helicoptors.
(c) Turning sand into tank fuel.
(d) Navigating tanks by stars.

4. What was the name of the bar Feynman frequents in Buffalo?
(a) Buffalo Bill's.
(b) The Alibi Room.
(c) Black and White.
(d) Curly's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does young Feynman put on his hands to do his fire trick?

2. To what does Feynman credit his desire to fix radios when he was just a boy?

3. What is the topic of the lecture Feynman is invited to give at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences?

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

5. As a child, where does Feynman first learn about the Mayans?

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