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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 Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?
(a) September 1925.
(b) November 1925.
(c) August 1925.
(d) October 1925.

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

3. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1906.

4. When Schrodinger joined the Austro-Hungarian army, where was he sent?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Gallipoli.
(d) Belgium.

5. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?

2. Where was Mochizuki born?

3. Where did Grothendieck's father die?

4. How many pages were the proof that Shinichi Mochizuki published in four articles on his blog for a + b +c?

5. What illness did Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

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