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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 old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?
(a) 46.
(b) 18.
(c) 29.
(d) 32.

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

3. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?
(a) May 1926.
(b) July 1926.
(c) June 1926.
(d) April 1926.

4. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?
(a) Catholic school.
(b) Jewish primary school.
(c) German primary school.
(d) Confessional school.

5. When a binary star went nova in a constellation during Schwarzschild's internship, how how did he say awake observing it?
(a) 4 days and nights.
(b) 1 day and 1 night.
(c) 2 days and nights.
(d) 3 days and nights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall were the cliffs on the island Heisenberg went in 1925?

2. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

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

4. What was the nationality of Heisenberg's mentor Niels Bohr?

5. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?

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