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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Cello.
(c) Piano.
(d) Violin.

3. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?
(a) September 1925.
(b) October 1925.
(c) November 1925.
(d) August 1925.

4. When did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?
(a) August 24, 2012.
(b) August 31, 2012.
(c) August 11, 2012.
(d) August 7, 2012.

5. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?
(a) Amitriptyline.
(b) Opiates.
(c) Dothiepin.
(d) Cyanide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?

2. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?

3. After talking a walk and discuss Asian philosophy with Miss Herwig, how did Schrodinger hurt himself?

4. In Chapter V of "The Night Gardener," when did a giant fire ravage the small town?

5. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?

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