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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. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?

2. What color was Johann Jacob Diesbach trying to create when he discovered Prussian Blue?

3. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?

4. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?

5. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Schwarzschild believe the singularity in his metrics was a mistake?

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

5. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?

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

9. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in sections one through four of the book? How does the point of view change in section five? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters? How does changing the point of view in section five change how readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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