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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. What is the name for Pervitin today?
2. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
3. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
4. How long could Nazi troopers stay awake when taking Pervitin?
5. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?
2. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?
3. Why did Fritz Haber win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
4. How was cyanide used in an attempt to kill Grigori Rasputin, and how was he finally killed?
5. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?
6. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?
7. When was the first gas attack in history?
8. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?
9. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?
10. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Labutut uses in When We Cease to Understand the World? How do these analogies help readers comprehend characters, events, or concepts?
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