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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. Who did Heisenberg nearly run into in 1925 on an island he visited who was trying to sell him something?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A young woman.
(c) A priest.
(d) A nun.

2. Where was Goring's body cremated?
(a) Haidhausen.
(b) Bogenhausen.
(c) Nordfriedhof.
(d) Ostfriedhof.

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

4. When was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?
(a) 1960 to 1981.
(b) 1958 to 1973.
(c) 1945 to 1980.
(d) 1952 to 1978.

5. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?
(a) Pemphigoid.
(b) Pemphigus.
(c) IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses.
(d) Epidermolysis bullosa acquista.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mochizuki born?

2. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?

3. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?

4. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?

5. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

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