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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) Virtually everyone.
(b) 80 percent.
(c) 75 percent.
(d) 95 percent.

2. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Electric chair.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Lethal injection.

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

4. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?
(a) 3 days.
(b) A week.
(c) Several days.
(d) 7 days.

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

7. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

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

9. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?
(a) 9 weeks.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

10. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?
(a) 2 blisters at the corner of his mouth.
(b) Blisters in his throat.
(c) Blisters in his ears.
(d) Blisters on his face.

11. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) A month.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

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

14. What was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Captain.
(c) Lieutenant.
(d) Sergeant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

2. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

3. When did Fritz Haber die?

4. How old was Schwarzschild when he became the youngest university professor in Germany?

5. When was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?

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