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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. How many pages were the proof that Shinichi Mochizuki published in four articles on his blog for a + b +c?
(a) 25.
(b) 370.
(c) 198.
(d) 600.

2. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Allergy.
(b) Infection.
(c) Fungus.
(d) Gas attack.

4. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?
(a) Sights on the tanks.
(b) Binoculars.
(c) Telescopes.
(d) Sights on rifles.

5. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) Virtually everyone.
(c) 75 percent.
(d) 95 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?

2. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?

3. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?

4. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?

5. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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