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

2. What color were Hermann Goring's fingers and toes stained when he was examined before the Nuremburg Trials?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

3. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?
(a) Warrenzin.
(b) Demmin.
(c) Loitz.
(d) Jarmen.

4. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?
(a) Over 50.
(b) Over 40.
(c) 43.
(d) 51.

5. 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) 7 days.
(c) A week.
(d) 3 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

2. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?

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

4. Where was Mochizuki born?

5. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?

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