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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Night Gardener.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the night gardner used to be?
(a) Ethologist.
(b) Biochemist.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) Physicist.

2. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1958.

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

4. When did Germany sign the armistice to end the Great War?
(a) September 1918.
(b) October 1918.
(c) November 1918.
(d) December 1918.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?

2. Where did Grothendieck's father die?

3. 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?

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

5. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?

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