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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Night Gardener.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?
(a) Kuffner.
(b) Starkenburg.
(c) Stuttgart.
(d) Liebniz.

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?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) 2 1/2 years.

3. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 22, 2014.
(b) November 13, 2014.
(c) November 2, 2014.
(d) November 28, 2014.

4. 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) West-Eastern Divan.
(d) Theory of Colours.

5. How old was the night gardener when a family member hung themselves from a tree?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 7 or 8.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 4 or 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

2. What nests inside the tree the night gardener feared as a boy?

3. When Heisenberg had a fever in 1925 on vacation, how many blankets did he cover himself with?

4. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?

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

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