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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. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 22.
(d) 31.

2. What color were Hermann Goring's fingers and toes stained when he was examined before the Nuremburg Trials?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

3. When did Schwarzchild marry?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1910.

4. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Gas attack.
(b) Fungus.
(c) Infection.
(d) Allergy.

5. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Violin.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Cello.
(d) Piano.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?

5. When was the first gas attack in history conducted?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hitler's dog die?

2. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?

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

4. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?

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

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

7. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?

8. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?

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

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

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