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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 Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?
(a) Rings of Saturn.
(b) Venus.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Craters of the moon.

2. Who influenced Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie to study physics?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A friend.
(c) An uncle.
(d) His older brother.

3. Where did Grothendieck's father die?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Ravensbruck.
(d) Buchenwald.

4. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?
(a) Goro Shimura.
(b) Mitshuhiro Shishikura.
(c) Heisuke Hironaka.
(d) Akio Tamagawa.

5. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?
(a) Auriga.
(b) Serpens.
(c) Cetus.
(d) Capricornus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?

2. When did Niels Bohr receive the Nobel Prize?

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

4. In 1925, why did Heisenberg run back to his hotel after nearly running into someone who was trying to sell him something?

5. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?

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