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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. What type of Jews are especially susceptible to the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Mizrahim.
(b) Georgian.
(c) Teimanim.
(d) Ashkenazi.

2. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
(a) September 24, 1939.
(b) December 5, 1939.
(c) October 17, 1939.
(d) November 9, 1939.

3. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?
(a) December 2013.
(b) January 2014.
(c) October 2013.
(d) March 2014.

4. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?
(a) Venus.
(b) Craters of the moon.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Rings of Saturn.

5. How many puppies had Hitler's dog given birth to shortly before she was killed?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?

3. When did the commune Grothendieck founded as a place open to all descend into lawlessness?

4. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?

5. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

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