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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. What color liquid did a stranger drug Heisenberg with in a bar?
(a) Brown.
(b) Colorless.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

2. What illness did Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Smallpox.

3. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 8 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 12 minutes.

4. Where was Mochizuki born?
(a) Sapporo.
(b) Osaka.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Kyoto.

5. When a doctor was finally consulted about Heisenberg's condition in 1925, what did he diagnose?
(a) Dehydration.
(b) A cold.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?

2. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?

3. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?

4. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?

5. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

2. How sick did Heisenberg get while he was at Heligoland?

3. What was Vienna like after the Great War?

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

5. Why did Grothendieck's professor Laurent Schwartz give him an article he published, and what did Grothendieck do with the article?

6. What was known about Grothendieck's father?

7. What does Labutut write about Heisenberg and his accomplishments?

8. What deprivations did Erwin Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

9. 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?

10. How did de Broglie become interested in science?

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