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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. 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 tear apart.
(d) It would bend.

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?
(a) 230,000.
(b) More than 250,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) 175,000.

3. How many puppies had Hitler's dog given birth to shortly before she was killed?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

3. Where was Goring's body cremated?

4. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?

5. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When was the first gas attack in history?

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

5. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?

6. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?

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

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

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

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

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