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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 a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?
(a) 3 days.
(b) A week.
(c) Several days.
(d) 7 days.

2. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/3.
(c) All.
(d) 1/4.

3. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?
(a) 60%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 55%.

4. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?
(a) Starkenburg.
(b) Kuffner.
(c) Liebniz.
(d) Stuttgart.

5. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?
(a) 2,500 meters.
(b) 4,000 meters.
(c) 3,000 meters.
(d) 3,500 meters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?

2. What was the name of Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond's sister who pampered him?

3. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?

4. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?

5. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?

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