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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 weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?
(a) 2 pistols.
(b) Revolver.
(c) Rifle.
(d) Bayonet.

2. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

3. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 28, 2014.
(b) November 2, 2014.
(c) November 22, 2014.
(d) November 13, 2014.

4. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?
(a) Texel.
(b) Heligoland.
(c) Ameland.
(d) Gossa.

5. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?

2. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?

3. What did Heisenberg do at dawn every morning on the island he visited in 1925?

4. Who did Heisenberg nearly run into in 1925 on an island he visited who was trying to sell him something?

5. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mochizuki?

2. What analogy is used to describe Heisenberg's discovery?

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

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

5. When did Mochizuki become well known?

6. Who was Grothendieck's last visitor before his death in 2014?

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

8. What system did Heisenberg create using only direct observation?

9. How did Labutut describe how Schrodinger created wave mechanics?

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

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