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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. When was the first gas attack in history conducted?
(a) June 11, 1915.
(b) April 22, 1915.
(c) May 5, 1915.
(d) March 19, 1915.

2. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) 95 percent.
(b) Virtually everyone.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

3. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Rottweiler.
(b) German shepherd.
(c) Doberman Pinscher.
(d) Belgian Malinois.

4. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Austria.
(d) Bavaria.

5. At what temperature does blue acid boil?
(a) 26 degrees Celsius.
(b) 30 degrees Celsius.
(c) 45 degrees Celsius.
(d) 15 degrees Celsius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color did Prussian Blue replace because it was cheaper?

2. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

3. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?

4. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?

5. How many tons of sarin did German scientists manufacture?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

3. How was cyanide used in an attempt to kill Grigori Rasputin, and how was he finally killed?

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

5. What was said about the charisma of Johann Conrad Dippel?

6. How was Prussian Blue discovered, and why did it become popular?

7. How did Schwarzschild damage the cornea of his left eye?

8. How did Hitler's dog die?

9. How did Schwarzschild describe a gas attack he was in?

10. How was Goring sentenced to die; how did he want to die; and how did he die?

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