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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Loitz.
(b) Warrenzin.
(c) Demmin.
(d) Jarmen.

2. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1906.

3. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Bavaria.
(b) Germany.
(c) Austria.
(d) Switzerland.

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

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

6. When a binary star went nova in a constellation during Schwarzschild's internship, how how did he say awake observing it?
(a) 1 day and 1 night.
(b) 4 days and nights.
(c) 3 days and nights.
(d) 2 days and nights.

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

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

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

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

11. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Belgian Malinois.
(b) Doberman Pinscher.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Rottweiler.

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

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

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

15. In June of 2016, how much was paid for a pair of Goring's underpants?
(a) 3,000 euros.
(b) 2,000 euros.
(c) 1,200 euros.
(d) 500 euros.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

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

3. 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?

4. When did Berlin fall?

5. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

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