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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. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?
(a) 49.
(b) 18.
(c) 53.
(d) 37.

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

3. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?
(a) Until the end of the universe.
(b) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(c) Decades.
(d) Thousands of years.

4. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?
(a) November 1925.
(b) September 1925.
(c) August 1925.
(d) October 1925.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he became the youngest university professor in Germany?

2. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?

3. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

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

5. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?

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