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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color were Hermann Goring's fingers and toes stained when he was examined before the Nuremburg Trials?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

3. What color did Prussian Blue replace because it was cheaper?
(a) Sapphire.
(b) Cerulean.
(c) Periwinkle.
(d) Ultramarine.

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

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

6. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?
(a) Cyanide.
(b) Opiates.
(c) Dothiepin.
(d) Amitriptyline.

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

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

9. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?
(a) Kuffner.
(b) Starkenburg.
(c) Stuttgart.
(d) Liebniz.

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

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

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

13. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1694.
(c) 1686.
(d) 1738.

14. What type of Jews are especially susceptible to the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Mizrahim.
(b) Ashkenazi.
(c) Teimanim.
(d) Georgian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?

2. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?

3. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?

4. 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?

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

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