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

2. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?

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

4. At what temperature does blue acid boil?

5. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Hitler's dog die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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