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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. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?
(a) Cyanide.
(b) Opiates.
(c) Amitriptyline.
(d) Dothiepin.

2. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Hung herself.
(b) Took cyanide.
(c) Shot herself in the chest.
(d) Shot herself in the head.

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

4. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
(a) Not quite 20.
(b) 22.
(c) Almost 18.
(d) 19.

5. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Elias.
(c) Martin.
(d) Alfred.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?

2. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?

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

4. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?

5. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

7. How did Hitler's dog die?

8. How did Schwarzschild damage the cornea of his left eye?

9. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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

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