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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 cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1694.
(d) 1686.
2. When did Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1943.
3. 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?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.
4. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?
(a) December 12, 1915.
(b) December 29, 1915.
(c) December 24, 1915.
(d) December 1, 1915.
5. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 95 percent.
(d) Virtually everyone.
Short Answer Questions
1. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?
2. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?
3. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
4. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?
5. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Fritz Haber win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
2. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?
3. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?
4. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?
5. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?
6. At the age of seven, how did Schwarzschild show his brother the rings of Saturn?
7. How was Prussian Blue discovered, and why did it become popular?
8. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?
9. When was the first gas attack in history?
10. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?
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