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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?
(a) Father.
(b) 13-year-old son.
(c) Mother.
(d) Husband.

2. When did Fritz Haber die?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1935.

3. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?
(a) 49.
(b) 18.
(c) 53.
(d) 37.

4. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?
(a) Jewish primary school.
(b) Catholic school.
(c) Confessional school.
(d) German primary school.

5. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) Decades.
(c) Thousands of years.
(d) Until the end of the universe.

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

7. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?
(a) 230,000.
(b) More than 250,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) 175,000.

8. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?
(a) 11.
(b) 31.
(c) 14.
(d) 22.

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

10. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Cello.
(c) Piano.
(d) Violin.

11. 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) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 2 1/2 years.
(d) 1 1/2 years.

12. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
(a) 19.
(b) Not quite 20.
(c) Almost 18.
(d) 22.

13. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?
(a) Pemphigus.
(b) IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses.
(c) Epidermolysis bullosa acquista.
(d) Pemphigoid.

14. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?
(a) Rings of Saturn.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Venus.
(d) Craters of the moon.

15. What color was Johann Jacob Diesbach trying to create when he discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Purple.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. In April of 1945, how many people killed themselves in Berlin?

2. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?

3. How long have Einstein published his theory of general relativity did Schwarzchild provide a solution?

4. How many tons of sarin did German scientists manufacture?

5. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?

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