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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name for Pervitin today?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Ectasy.
(d) Methamphetamine.

2. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?
(a) 32.
(b) 34.
(c) 35.
(d) 33.

3. When Schrodinger returned to Zurich, in what period of time did he build on his equation until it comprised a copmle mechanics?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 13 months.
(c) 11 months.
(d) 6 months.

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?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?
(a) 22.
(b) 10.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mountain could be seen from Mochizuki's office window at the University of Kyoto?

2. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

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?

4. How old was the night gardener when a family member hung themselves from a tree?

5. Who read de Broglie's dissertation and gave an opinion that allowed de Broglie to get his dissertation?

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