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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 7 days.
(c) Several days.
(d) A week.

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

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

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

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

6. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

8. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?
(a) Capricornus.
(b) Serpens.
(c) Auriga.
(d) Cetus.

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

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

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

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

13. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

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

15. 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) 175,000.
(b) 230,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) More than 250,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?

3. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

4. When did Goring die?

5. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?

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