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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 old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

2. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?

3. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?

4. How did Goring die?

5. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?

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

3. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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

5. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?

6. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

7. Why did Fritz Haber win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

8. Why did Schwarzschild believe the singularity in his metrics was a mistake?

9. When was the first gas attack in history?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mochizuki and Grothendieck’s research had to do with pure mathematics. What is the difference between pure and applied mathematics? Why are they both important?

Essay Topic 2

The book and section four are titled When We Cease to Understand the World. How does the title of the book and the title of section four relate to the theme of the incomprehensibility of the world?

Essay Topic 3

Grothendieck’s abandonment of mathematics is referred to as a curse. Who does Labutut postulate succumbed to Grothendieck’s curse? Why did Labutut seem to think there was a connection between genius and madness?

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