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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 Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

2. At what temperature does blue acid boil?
(a) 45 degrees Celsius.
(b) 15 degrees Celsius.
(c) 26 degrees Celsius.
(d) 30 degrees Celsius.

3. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

4. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?
(a) 46.
(b) 32.
(c) 18.
(d) 29.

5. When was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?
(a) March 7, 1940.
(b) May 20, 1940.
(c) June 28, 1940.
(d) April 10, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many puppies had Hitler's dog given birth to shortly before she was killed?

3. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

4. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

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

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