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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. How many poems were dictated to Hafez after his fast ended?
(a) 600.
(b) 450.
(c) More than 500.
(d) About 700.

2. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1930.

3. How old was Schrodinger in 1923?
(a) 43.
(b) 41.
(c) 35.
(d) 37.

4. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Strasbourg.
(c) Paris.
(d) Munich.

5. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?

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

3. How did Hafez break his fast after tracing a cricle in the sand?

4. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?

5. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?

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