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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) 1 day and 1 night.
(d) 4 days and nights.

2. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Doberman Pinscher.
(b) Rottweiler.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Belgian Malinois.

3. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?
(a) Cetus.
(b) Auriga.
(c) Capricornus.
(d) Serpens.

4. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?
(a) December 24, 1915.
(b) December 29, 1915.
(c) December 1, 1915.
(d) December 12, 1915.

5. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1809.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

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

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

4. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?

5. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?

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