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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When We Cease to Understand the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1996.

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

3. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?
(a) Husband.
(b) 13-year-old son.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

4. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?
(a) 8 minutes.
(b) 12 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

5. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?

2. After talking a walk and discuss Asian philosophy with Miss Herwig, how did Schrodinger hurt himself?

3. When did Schwarzchild marry?

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

5. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?

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