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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Schwarzchild marry?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1910.

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

3. At what temperature does blue acid boil?
(a) 15 degrees Celsius.
(b) 30 degrees Celsius.
(c) 45 degrees Celsius.
(d) 26 degrees Celsius.

4. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?
(a) December 29, 1915.
(b) December 1, 1915.
(c) December 24, 1915.
(d) December 12, 1915.

5. Where was Goring's body cremated?
(a) Nordfriedhof.
(b) Bogenhausen.
(c) Ostfriedhof.
(d) Haidhausen.

6. How old was Schwarzschild when he became the youngest university professor in Germany?
(a) 28.
(b) 27.
(c) 29.
(d) 26.

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

8. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Shot herself in the chest.
(b) Hung herself.
(c) Took cyanide.
(d) Shot herself in the head.

9. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?
(a) It would tear apart.
(b) It would bend.
(c) It would explode.
(d) It would implode.

10. How long have Einstein published his theory of general relativity did Schwarzchild provide a solution?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) A month or so.
(c) 8 days.
(d) 2 months.

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

12. How many tons of sarin did German scientists manufacture?
(a) 6,400.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 8,500.
(d) 10,000.

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

14. When did Berlin fall?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) April 16, 1945.
(c) April 23, 1945.
(d) April 2, 1945.

15. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?
(a) 43.
(b) 51.
(c) Over 40.
(d) Over 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was Johann Jacob Diesbach trying to create when he discovered Prussian Blue?

2. What is the name for Pervitin today?

3. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?

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

5. When did Goring die?

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