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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 long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?
(a) 9 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

2. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Piano.
(b) Cello.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Violin.

4. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?
(a) Bayonet.
(b) 2 pistols.
(c) Rifle.
(d) Revolver.

5. In what century did the Perisan poet Hafez write?
(a) 14th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 13th.
(d) 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Niels Bohr receive the Nobel Prize?

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

3. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?

4. What family members did Schrodinger lose during the interwar period?

5. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?

(see the answer key)

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