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

2. How many doses of dihydrocodeine did Goring have when he was arrested?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 15,000.

3. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1908.

4. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 2, 2014.
(b) November 28, 2014.
(c) November 13, 2014.
(d) November 22, 2014.

5. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 1 1/2 times.
(d) 3 1/2 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

2. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?

3. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?

4. What did Heisenberg do at dawn every morning on the island he visited in 1925?

5. How did Goring die?

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