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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 was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1743.

2. What illness did Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
(a) December 5, 1939.
(b) September 24, 1939.
(c) October 17, 1939.
(d) November 9, 1939.

4. When did Germany sign the armistice to end the Great War?
(a) October 1918.
(b) November 1918.
(c) December 1918.
(d) September 1918.

5. What poems did Heisenberg memorize when he was on an island in 1925 and sick with fever?
(a) Art of Living.
(b) Maxims and Reflections.
(c) Theory of Colours.
(d) West-Eastern Divan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nationality of Heisenberg's mentor Niels Bohr?

2. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?

3. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

4. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?

5. What was the name of Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond's sister who pampered him?

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