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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 the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
(a) September 24, 1939.
(b) December 5, 1939.
(c) November 9, 1939.
(d) October 17, 1939.

2. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?
(a) Craters of the moon.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Venus.
(d) Rings of Saturn.

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

4. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?
(a) Pemphigus.
(b) Pemphigoid.
(c) IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses.
(d) Epidermolysis bullosa acquista.

5. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?
(a) More than 30 million.
(b) 35 million.
(c) About 25 million.
(d) 18 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

4. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?

5. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Hitler's dog die?

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