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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?
(a) 1958 to 1973.
(b) 1960 to 1981.
(c) 1945 to 1980.
(d) 1952 to 1978.

3. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?
(a) Rifle.
(b) Bayonet.
(c) 2 pistols.
(d) Revolver.

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

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

6. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1932.

7. In 1925, when did Heisenberg's fever break?
(a) Noon.
(b) Early morning.
(c) Late afternoon.
(d) Middle of the night.

8. How did de Broglie's comrade during World War I die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Drowned.

9. When did de Broglie enlist in the corps of engineers?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1913.

10. Who influenced Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie to study physics?
(a) His older brother.
(b) A friend.
(c) An uncle.
(d) A cousin.

11. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?
(a) Gottingen.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Heidelberg.
(d) Freiburg.

12. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, in what direction was the nearest city?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

13. When did Grothendieck win the Fields Medal?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1962.

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

15. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 28, 2014.
(b) November 13, 2014.
(c) November 22, 2014.
(d) November 2, 2014.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mochizuki when he already had his doctorate?

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

3. What word does Labutut use to describe how Einstein felt about Heisenberg's ideas?

4. How long did Ivan Fesenko study Mochizuki's proof before he declared it was impossible to understand?

5. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?

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