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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 did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
(a) September 24, 1939.
(b) October 17, 1939.
(c) November 9, 1939.
(d) December 5, 1939.

2. 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%.

3. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?
(a) Husband.
(b) 13-year-old son.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

4. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?
(a) 28.
(b) 4.
(c) 11.
(d) 19.

5. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?
(a) Changing of the guards.
(b) Dogs barking.
(c) His father's shoes climbing the stairs.
(d) Cats howling.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Schrodinger join the Austro-Hungarian army as an office during the Great War?

2. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?

3. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

4. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?

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

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