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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 in a constellation during Schwarzschild's internship, how how did he say awake observing it?
(a) 2 days and nights.
(b) 3 days and nights.
(c) 4 days and nights.
(d) 1 day and 1 night.

2. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
(a) 22.
(b) Almost 18.
(c) 19.
(d) Not quite 20.

3. When did Fritz Haber die?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1932.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?

2. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?

3. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?

4. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?

5. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?

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