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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?
(a) 29.
(b) 32.
(c) 46.
(d) 18.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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) More than 250,000.
(c) 230,000.
(d) 175,000.

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

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

14. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?
(a) 75.
(b) 88.
(c) About 50.
(d) More than 100.

15. How many doses of dihydrocodeine did Goring have when he was arrested?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 17,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Fritz Haber die?

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

3. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?

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

5. When was the first gas attack in history conducted?

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