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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Niels Bohr receive the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

2. What poems did Heisenberg memorize when he was on an island in 1925 and sick with fever?
(a) Theory of Colours.
(b) West-Eastern Divan.
(c) Art of Living.
(d) Maxims and Reflections.

3. 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.

4. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Munich.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Strasbourg.
(d) Paris.

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

6. 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.

7. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?
(a) August 1925.
(b) October 1925.
(c) November 1925.
(d) September 1925.

8. 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) 4 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

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

10. What word does Labutut use to describe how Einstein felt about Heisenberg's ideas?
(a) Repulsive.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Repugnant.
(d) Distasteful.

11. When Heisenberg tried to wite an article about his epiphany in 1925, how long did Niels Bohr leave the paper unread on his desk?
(a) Weeks.
(b) 11 days.
(c) Months.
(d) 2 weeks.

12. How old was Schrodinger in 1923?
(a) 41.
(b) 43.
(c) 35.
(d) 37.

13. When did Schrodinger marry Annemarie Bertel?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1920.

14. Where did Grothendieck's father die?
(a) Ravensbruck.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Dachau.
(d) Buchenwald.

15. When did Mochizuki agree to travel to France?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2016.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?

2. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?

3. When Schrodinger joined the Austro-Hungarian army, where was he sent?

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

5. How much of his time did Grothendieck dedicate to mathematics for many years?

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