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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 1 1/2 times.
(d) 3 1/2 times.

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

4. 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) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

7. In 1925 on an island he visited, what view did Heisenberg have from his hotel windows?
(a) Cliffs.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Trees.
(d) Ocean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

15. 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) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did Schrodinger rise during the Great War according to complaints from his staff?

2. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?

3. How many poems were dictated to Hafez after his fast ended?

4. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?

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

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