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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Schrodinger joined the Austro-Hungarian army, where was he sent?
(a) Belgium.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Gallipoli.

2. How many poems were dictated to Hafez after his fast ended?
(a) 450.
(b) 600.
(c) About 700.
(d) More than 500.

3. What color liquid did a stranger drug Heisenberg with in a bar?
(a) Colorless.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

4. What family members did Schrodinger lose during the interwar period?
(a) Both parents.
(b) Father and sister.
(c) Both grandparents.
(d) Father and grandfather.

5. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?
(a) 22.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

6. What was the nationality of Heisenberg's mentor Niels Bohr?
(a) Finnish.
(b) Swedish.
(c) Norwegian.
(d) Danish.

7. What illness did Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Diphtheria.

8. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?
(a) 23.
(b) 31.
(c) 29.
(d) 21.

9. When did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?
(a) August 31, 2012.
(b) August 7, 2012.
(c) August 24, 2012.
(d) August 11, 2012.

10. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

11. When did Goethe write the poems Heisenberg tried to memorize in 1925?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1817.
(d) 1826.

12. Who read de Broglie's dissertation and gave an opinion that allowed de Broglie to get his dissertation?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Charles-Victor Maugin.
(c) Elie Cartan.
(d) Langevin.

13. How many pages were the proof that Shinichi Mochizuki published in four articles on his blog for a + b +c?
(a) 600.
(b) 25.
(c) 370.
(d) 198.

14. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?
(a) 2/3.
(b) All.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

15. What did Heisenberg do at dawn every morning on the island he visited in 1925?
(a) Study.
(b) Swim.
(c) Hike.
(d) Walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?

2. When did Germany sign the armistice to end the Great War?

3. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?

4. Where did de Broglie serve as a telegraph operator during World War I?

5. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?

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