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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 much of his time did Grothendieck dedicate to mathematics for many years?
(a) 15 hours a day, 7 days a week.
(b) 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
(c) 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
(d) 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

2. 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) October 17, 1939.
(c) November 9, 1939.
(d) September 24, 1939.

3. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?
(a) 1763.
(b) 1747.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1779.

4. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?
(a) His father's shoes climbing the stairs.
(b) Dogs barking.
(c) Cats howling.
(d) Changing of the guards.

5. What color did Prussian Blue replace because it was cheaper?
(a) Ultramarine.
(b) Cerulean.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Periwinkle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the commune Grothendieck founded as a place open to all descend into lawlessness?

2. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

3. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?

4. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?

5. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?

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