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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 much of his time did Grothendieck dedicate to mathematics for many years?
(a) 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
(b) 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
(c) 15 hours a day, 7 days a week.
(d) 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.

2. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Rottweiler.
(b) German shepherd.
(c) Belgian Malinois.
(d) Doberman Pinscher.

3. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Austria.
(c) Germany.
(d) Bavaria.

4. What color liquid did a stranger drug Heisenberg with in a bar?
(a) Colorless.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

5. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?
(a) More than 30 million.
(b) 18 million.
(c) 35 million.
(d) About 25 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Schwarzchild marry?

2. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?

3. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?

4. In April of 1945, how many people killed themselves in Berlin?

5. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?

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