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

2. 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) 2 1/2 years.
(b) 1 1/2 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

3. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?
(a) 46.
(b) 18.
(c) 32.
(d) 29.

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

5. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1743.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?

2. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?

3. Where was Goring's body cremated?

4. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?

5. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When was the first gas attack in history?

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

6. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

7. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?

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

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

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

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