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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tons of sarin did German scientists manufacture?

2. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?

3. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?

4. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

5. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

2. How did Schwarzschild describe a gas attack he was in?

3. At the age of seven, how did Schwarzschild show his brother the rings of Saturn?

4. How was Goring sentenced to die; how did he want to die; and how did he die?

5. How did Schwarzschild damage the cornea of his left eye?

6. How did Hitler's dog die?

7. What rash of suicides erupted in 1945 in Demmin, Germany, and why?

8. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?

9. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?

10. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schwarzschild volunteered to serve in World War I. What was Schwarzchild’s view of World War I, and how did his view change?

Essay Topic 2

Schwarzchild created a makeshift telescope when he was seven. What accomplishments did Schwarzchild have by the time he was 28? Was he a prodigy?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Labutut use artistic license to create the realistic background of When We Cease to Understand the World?

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