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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
(a) Martin.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Elias.

3. 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 explode.
(c) It would implode.
(d) It would bend.

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

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

6. How long could Nazi troopers stay awake when taking Pervitin?
(a) Days.
(b) Weeks.
(c) 15-20 days.
(d) 8-10 weeks.

7. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?
(a) Jarmen.
(b) Warrenzin.
(c) Demmin.
(d) Loitz.

8. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?
(a) 35%.
(b) 55%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 60%.

9. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?
(a) Annapurna.
(b) Pyrenees.
(c) Carpathians.
(d) Alps.

10. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?
(a) 35 million.
(b) More than 30 million.
(c) About 25 million.
(d) 18 million.

11. How did Goring die?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Electric chair.
(c) Hanged.
(d) Cyanide.

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

13. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?
(a) September 23, 1939.
(b) September 1, 1939.
(c) September 16, 1939.
(d) September 4, 1939.

14. 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) Shot herself in the head.
(c) Took cyanide.
(d) Hung herself.

15. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?
(a) Spain.
(b) Serbia.
(c) Austria-Hungary.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

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

3. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

4. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?

5. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?

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