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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?
(a) Mother.
(b) Husband.
(c) Father.
(d) 13-year-old son.

2. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Hung herself.
(b) Shot herself in the head.
(c) Took cyanide.
(d) Shot herself in the chest.

3. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?
(a) Loitz.
(b) Jarmen.
(c) Demmin.
(d) Warrenzin.

4. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?
(a) September 16, 1939.
(b) September 23, 1939.
(c) September 1, 1939.
(d) September 4, 1939.

5. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?
(a) 1 1/2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 2 1/2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

2. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?

3. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?

4. When did Fritz Haber die?

5. What color were Hermann Goring's fingers and toes stained when he was examined before the Nuremburg Trials?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?

2. At the age of seven, how did Schwarzschild show his brother the rings of Saturn?

3. Why did Fritz Haber win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

4. How did Hitler's dog die?

5. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?

6. Why did Schwarzschild believe the singularity in his metrics was a mistake?

7. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

8. What rash of suicides erupted in 1945 in Demmin, Germany, and why?

9. What was Pervitin, and how was it used by German troops?

10. How did Schwarzschild solve Einstein's equation of general relativity?

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