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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. 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) Demmin.
(b) Loitz.
(c) Warrenzin.
(d) Jarmen.

2. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?
(a) It would implode.
(b) It would explode.
(c) It would bend.
(d) It would tear apart.

3. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
(a) Electric chair.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Lethal injection.

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

5. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?
(a) Over 50.
(b) 43.
(c) Over 40.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?

2. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?

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

4. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?

5. How long could Nazi troopers stay awake when taking Pervitin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

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

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

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

10. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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