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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hafez break his fast after tracing a cricle in the sand?
(a) Scraps of bread.
(b) Cup of wine.
(c) A few bits of fish.
(d) A couple pieces of fruit.

2. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

3. What transformed Heisenberg's face so he looked like a monster?
(a) An auto accident.
(b) Severe burns.
(c) Bee sting.
(d) Pollen allergy.

4. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?
(a) 3,000 meters.
(b) 3,500 meters.
(c) 2,500 meters.
(d) 4,000 meters.

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

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. In what century did the Perisan poet Hafez write?
(a) 13th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 12th.

8. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?
(a) Writer.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Diplomacy.
(d) Politics.

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

10. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

13. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?
(a) 33.
(b) 35.
(c) 32.
(d) 34.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?

2. When did Grothendieck win the Fields Medal?

3. What mountain could be seen from Mochizuki's office window at the University of Kyoto?

4. How tall were the cliffs on the island Heisenberg went in 1925?

5. 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?

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