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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 Heisenberg tried to wite an article about his epiphany in 1925, how long did Niels Bohr leave the paper unread on his desk?
(a) 11 days.
(b) Months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) Weeks.

2. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1905.

3. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?
(a) 22.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?
(a) Gottingen.
(b) Freiburg.
(c) Heidelberg.
(d) Berlin.

5. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?
(a) 11.
(b) 19.
(c) 28.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?

2. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?

3. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?

4. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?

5. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how large of a company did he think he saw approaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

2. What contributions did Schrodinger make in later years, and how did they compare to what he produced at the tuberculosis sanitarium?

3. How did Heisenberg attack Schrodinger's wave mechanics?

4. When and how did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

5. What was Grothendieck's lifelong obsession, and what was one of his greatest discoveries?

6. Who was one of the first people aware of the existence of Mochizuki's proof, and what was learned when he sent the proof to Ivan Fesenko?

7. When did Mochizuki become well known?

8. How did a professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz describe Grothendieck?

9. How did Labutut summarize Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics?

10. What was Vienna like after the Great War?

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