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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. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?

2. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?

3. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

4. When did Berlin fall?

5. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?

4. How did Hitler's dog die?

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

6. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

7. What was said about the charisma of Johann Conrad Dippel?

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

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

10. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is historical fiction and metaphysical fiction?

Essay Topic 2

There is a lemon tree on the narrator’s property in “The Night Gardener.” What does the narrator want to know about his tree? What paradox is created this scenario? How does the paradox of the lemon tree connect to the paradox of scientific discovery?

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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