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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heart of the Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?
(a) Jewish primary school.
(b) Confessional school.
(c) Catholic school.
(d) German primary school.

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

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

4. What color did Prussian Blue replace because it was cheaper?
(a) Cerulean.
(b) Ultramarine.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Periwinkle.

5. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Austria.
(c) Bavaria.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?

2. How much of his time did Grothendieck dedicate to mathematics for many years?

3. When did Mochizuki agree to travel to France?

4. When did the commune Grothendieck founded as a place open to all descend into lawlessness?

5. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

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