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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?
(a) Mitshuhiro Shishikura.
(b) Akio Tamagawa.
(c) Heisuke Hironaka.
(d) Goro Shimura.

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

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

4. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?
(a) Sights on rifles.
(b) Sights on the tanks.
(c) Telescopes.
(d) Binoculars.

5. When did Schrodinger join the Austro-Hungarian army as an office during the Great War?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1913.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?

2. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

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

4. How long could Nazi troopers stay awake when taking Pervitin?

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

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