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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 Berlin fall?

2. In April of 1945, how many people killed themselves in Berlin?

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

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

5. When a binary star went nova in a constellation during Schwarzschild's internship, how how did he say awake observing it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

6. When was the first gas attack in history?

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

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

9. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The book and section four are titled When We Cease to Understand the World. How does the title of the book and the title of section four relate to the theme of the incomprehensibility of the world?

Essay Topic 2

Schrodinger was diagnosed with tuberculosis after a bout with bronchitis. Why did Schrodinger battle the disease off and on for the rest of his life?

Essay Topic 3

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

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