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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 Fritz Haber die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1937.

2. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1907.

3. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

4. 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) Warrenzin.
(d) Demmin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Goring die?

3. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?

4. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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