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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) Alfred.
(b) Martin.
(c) Elias.
(d) Thomas.

2. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) A month.

3. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?
(a) Serpens.
(b) Auriga.
(c) Capricornus.
(d) Cetus.

5. Where was Mochizuki born?
(a) Kyoto.
(b) Sapporo.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Osaka.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?

2. When Heisenberg tried to wite an article about his epiphany in 1925, how long did Niels Bohr leave the paper unread on his desk?

3. After an exhibition of de Broglie's friend's paintings was horribly criticized, how long did de Broglie lock himself away and see no one but his sister?

4. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?

5. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?

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