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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 Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

2. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?
(a) 1694.
(b) 1686.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1738.

3. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1809.

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

5. When did Berlin fall?
(a) April 23, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) April 2, 1945.
(d) April 16, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?

4. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

5. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?

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

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

9. When was the first gas attack in history?

10. How did Hitler's dog die?

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