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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 days did Hafez spend in silence when he traced a circle in the sand and sat there?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

2. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Munich.
(b) Strasbourg.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

3. When did Schrodinger marry Annemarie Bertel?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1919.

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

5. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?
(a) Serbia.
(b) Austria-Hungary.
(c) Russia.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?

2. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?

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

4. 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?

5. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?

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