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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 was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?

2. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

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

4. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?

5. How long could Nazi troopers stay awake when taking Pervitin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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

5. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

6. How did Hitler's dog die?

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

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

9. What rash of suicides erupted in 1945 in Demmin, Germany, and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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

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