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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 Schwarzchild marry?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1910.

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

3. What was the nationality of Heisenberg's mentor Niels Bohr?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Finnish.
(c) Danish.
(d) Norwegian.

4. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 95 percent.
(d) Virtually everyone.

5. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who read de Broglie's dissertation and gave an opinion that allowed de Broglie to get his dissertation?

2. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?

3. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?

4. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

5. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?

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