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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. How many poems were dictated to Hafez after his fast ended?
(a) More than 500.
(b) 600.
(c) 450.
(d) About 700.

2. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?
(a) Writer.
(b) Diplomacy.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Politics.

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

4. Who influenced Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie to study physics?
(a) A cousin.
(b) An uncle.
(c) His older brother.
(d) A friend.

5. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. What transformed Heisenberg's face so he looked like a monster?

2. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, in what direction was the nearest city?

3. 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?

4. How old was Schrodinger in 1923?

5. After talking a walk and discuss Asian philosophy with Miss Herwig, how did Schrodinger hurt himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Mochizuki?

4. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

5. What did Einstein say about Heisenberg's ideas?

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

7. What limitations did Heisenberg set on his research during his time in Heligoland?

8. What regimen did Heisenberg follow during his first days in Heligoland?

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

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

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