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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. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Elias.
(d) Martin.

2. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 1/2 years.
(c) 2 1/2 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?
(a) Annapurna.
(b) Pyrenees.
(c) Alps.
(d) Carpathians.

5. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) Virtually everyone.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 95 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?

2. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?

3. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?

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

5. In 1925, what was the name of the woman on the island Heisenberg traveled to who devoted herself to his recovery?

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