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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. When did Alan Turing buy two large silver ingots and bury them in a forest?

2. When did Berlin fall?

3. When was the first gas attack in history conducted?

4. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?

5. When Schwarzschild made a crude telescope to show his brother the sky, what did he show his brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Hitler's dog die?

6. How did Schwarzschild solve Einstein's equation of general relativity?

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

8. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

9. When was the first gas attack in history?

10. How was Prussian Blue discovered, and why did it become popular?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schrodinger used metaphors to describe subatomic particles. How did he use metaphors to describe subatomic particles? Why did Werner Heisenberg hate using metaphors for subatomic particles and what did he believe should be used instead?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Schwarzchild created a makeshift telescope when he was seven. What accomplishments did Schwarzchild have by the time he was 28? Was he a prodigy?

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