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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 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) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

2. Where was Mochizuki born?
(a) Osaka.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Sapporo.
(d) Kyoto.

3. How many servants did de Broglie's brother Maurice bring when he sought to get him out of seclusion after the failure of the art exhibition?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

4. How did de Broglie's comrade during World War I die?
(a) Drowned.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heart attack.

5. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) Several days.
(d) A week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?

2. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?

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

4. In what century did the Perisan poet Hafez write?

5. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, how close was the nearest city?

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