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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heart of the Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?
(a) It would explode.
(b) It would implode.
(c) It would tear apart.
(d) It would bend.

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

3. When did Mochizuki agree to travel to France?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2015.

4. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

5. What mountain could be seen from Mochizuki's office window at the University of Kyoto?
(a) Mount Haku.
(b) Mount Daimonji.
(c) Mounta Takao.
(d) Mount Fjui.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?

2. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?

3. In April of 1945, how many people killed themselves in Berlin?

4. When was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?

5. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

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