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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mountain could be seen from Mochizuki's office window at the University of Kyoto?
(a) Mount Daimonji.
(b) Mount Fjui.
(c) Mounta Takao.
(d) Mount Haku.

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

3. How long did Ivan Fesenko study Mochizuki's proof before he declared it was impossible to understand?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 3 weeks.

4. 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) 2 weeks.
(b) Months.
(c) Weeks.
(d) 11 days.

5. What type of animals were on the island Heisenberg visited in 1925?
(a) Goats.
(b) Mule deer.
(c) Antelope.
(d) Wild horses.

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

7. How many servants did de Broglie's brother Maurice bring when he sought to get him out of seclusion after the failure of the art exhibition?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

11. What time did Schrodinger rise during the Great War according to complaints from his staff?
(a) Late morning.
(b) 1 p.m.
(c) Lunchtime.
(d) 11 p.m

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

13. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?
(a) Rat.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Seagull.
(d) Fish.

14. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 8.

15. How many days did Hafez spend in silence when he traced a circle in the sand and sat there?
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Schrodinger marry Annemarie Bertel?

2. In 1925, why did Heisenberg run back to his hotel after nearly running into someone who was trying to sell him something?

3. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?

4. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?

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

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