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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. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?

2. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?

3. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?

4. When did Goring die?

5. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?

2. How was cyanide used in an attempt to kill Grigori Rasputin, and how was he finally killed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Grothendieck and Mochizuki were mathematicians. What did the men have in common? Why were both men considered geniuses?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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