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

2. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

3. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, in what direction was the nearest city?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.

4. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?
(a) 31.
(b) 21.
(c) 29.
(d) 23.

5. When did Mochizuki agree to travel to France?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2013.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poems did Heisenberg memorize when he was on an island in 1925 and sick with fever?

2. What filled Miss Herwig's room?

3. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?

4. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?

5. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?

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