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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?
(a) IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses.
(b) Pemphigus.
(c) Epidermolysis bullosa acquista.
(d) Pemphigoid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When did Fritz Haber die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1937.

10. When did Goring die?
(a) October 15, 1946.
(b) October 22, 1946.
(c) October 30, 1946.
(d) October 1, 1946.

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

12. 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) Several days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 3 days.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?

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

4. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?

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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