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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?
(a) Several days.
(b) A week.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 3 days.

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) November 9, 1939.
(c) October 17, 1939.
(d) December 5, 1939.

3. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?
(a) 1763.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1747.
(d) 1782.

4. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1905.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many doses of dihydrocodeine did Goring have when he was arrested?

3. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?

4. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?

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

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