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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 was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) Captain.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Lieutenant.

2. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1993.

3. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?
(a) Gossa.
(b) Heligoland.
(c) Texel.
(d) Ameland.

4. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

5. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 13, 2014.
(b) November 2, 2014.
(c) November 28, 2014.
(d) November 22, 2014.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Grothendieck win the Fields Medal?

5. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?

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