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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 time did Schrodinger rise during the Great War according to complaints from his staff?
(a) Late morning.
(b) 11 p.m
(c) 1 p.m.
(d) Lunchtime.

2. When did de Broglie enlist in the corps of engineers?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1918.

3. How many servants did de Broglie's brother Maurice bring when he sought to get him out of seclusion after the failure of the art exhibition?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. How long did Ivan Fesenko study Mochizuki's proof before he declared it was impossible to understand?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 weeks.

5. In 1925 on an island he visited, what view did Heisenberg have from his hotel windows?
(a) Ocean.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Trees.
(d) Cliffs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?

2. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?

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

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

5. In what century did the Perisan poet Hafez write?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mochizuki?

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

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

4. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

5. Who was Niels Bohr?

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

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

8. How did Erwin Schrodinger become an international superstar?

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

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

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