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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Schwarzschild's Singularity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Electric chair.

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

5. When did Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

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. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

3. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?

4. What was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?

5. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

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