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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 a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?

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

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

4. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?

5. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the first gas attack in history?

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

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

4. How did Hitler's dog die?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fritz Haber made many contributions to science. What were his contributions? Why were his contributions positive and negative?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in “The Night Gardener”? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the setting?

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