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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 June of 2016, how much was paid for a pair of Goring's underpants?

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

3. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?

4. When did Goring die?

5. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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

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

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

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

10. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mochizuki and Grothendieck’s research had to do with pure mathematics. What is the difference between pure and applied mathematics? Why are they both important?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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