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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. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?
(a) April 1926.
(b) June 1926.
(c) May 1926.
(d) July 1926.

2. When a doctor was finally consulted about Heisenberg's condition in 1925, what did he diagnose?
(a) A cold.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?
(a) Gottingen.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Heidelberg.
(d) Freiburg.

4. When was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?
(a) 1960 to 1981.
(b) 1945 to 1980.
(c) 1958 to 1973.
(d) 1952 to 1978.

5. Where did de Broglie serve as a telegraph operator during World War I?
(a) Toulouse.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Marseille.
(d) Eiffel Tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

3. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

4. How many days did Hafez spend in silence when he traced a circle in the sand and sat there?

5. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?

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