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

2. How many soldiers in the Wehrmacht received Pervitin as part of their rations?

3. How did Goring die?

4. How long have Einstein published his theory of general relativity did Schwarzchild provide a solution?

5. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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

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

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

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

7. What was Pervitin, and how was it used by German troops?

8. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Schwarzchild solved equations of general relativity. How did the solution affected his mental state?

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