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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 did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Hung herself.
(b) Took cyanide.
(c) Shot herself in the head.
(d) Shot herself in the chest.

2. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?
(a) 18 million.
(b) More than 30 million.
(c) About 25 million.
(d) 35 million.

3. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
(a) Almost 18.
(b) Not quite 20.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

4. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Doberman Pinscher.
(b) Belgian Malinois.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Rottweiler.

5. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?
(a) 35%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 60%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

2. Where was Goring's body cremated?

3. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?

4. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?

5. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?

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