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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When We Cease to Understand the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Labutut use to describe how Einstein felt about Heisenberg's ideas?
(a) Repugnant.
(b) Repulsive.
(c) Distasteful.
(d) Disgusting.

2. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?
(a) Carpathians.
(b) Pyrenees.
(c) Annapurna.
(d) Alps.

3. What transformed Heisenberg's face so he looked like a monster?
(a) An auto accident.
(b) Pollen allergy.
(c) Bee sting.
(d) Severe burns.

4. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?
(a) Pascual Jordan.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Matthew Fisher.
(d) Schroedinger.

5. When Heisenberg had a fever in 1925 on vacation, how many blankets did he cover himself with?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?

2. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?

3. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?

4. What did Heisenberg do at dawn every morning on the island he visited in 1925?

5. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?

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