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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?
(a) 8 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 12 minutes.

2. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?
(a) Gossa.
(b) Texel.
(c) Heligoland.
(d) Ameland.

3. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

5. In 1925, what was the name of the woman on the island Heisenberg traveled to who devoted herself to his recovery?
(a) Muller.
(b) Becker.
(c) Rosenthal.
(d) Schulz.

6. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, how close was the nearest city?
(a) About 170 kilometers.
(b) 150 kilometers.
(c) More than 100 kilometers.
(d) 205 kilometers.

7. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?
(a) January 2014.
(b) October 2013.
(c) March 2014.
(d) December 2013.

8. What filled Miss Herwig's room?
(a) Maps.
(b) Books.
(c) Collections of insects.
(d) Paintings.

9. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?
(a) May 1926.
(b) June 1926.
(c) July 1926.
(d) April 1926.

10. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

11. When did Germany sign the armistice to end the Great War?
(a) November 1918.
(b) October 1918.
(c) December 1918.
(d) September 1918.

12. In 1924, what hills did Heisenberg and Bohr explore together?
(a) Tubingen.
(b) Nuremberg.
(c) Gottingen.
(d) Franconia.

13. 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.

14. After an exhibition of de Broglie's friend's paintings was horribly criticized, how long did de Broglie lock himself away and see no one but his sister?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 6 months.

15. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1998.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?

2. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?

3. Who did Heisenberg nearly run into in 1925 on an island he visited who was trying to sell him something?

4. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how large of a company did he think he saw approaching?

5. When Schrodinger returned to Zurich, in what period of time did he build on his equation until it comprised a copmle mechanics?

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