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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. How tall were the cliffs on the island Heisenberg went in 1925?

2. What illness did Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

3. When did de Broglie enlist in the corps of engineers?

4. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?

5. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Labutut summarize Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics?

2. Why did Grothendieck's professor Laurent Schwartz give him an article he published, and what did Grothendieck do with the article?

3. What was known about Grothendieck's father?

4. What contributions did Schrodinger make in later years, and how did they compare to what he produced at the tuberculosis sanitarium?

5. How did de Broglie become interested in science?

6. What did Einstein say about Heisenberg's ideas?

7. What limitations did Heisenberg set on his research during his time in Heligoland?

8. How did Heisenberg attack Schrodinger's wave mechanics?

9. Who was Niels Bohr?

10. When and how did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Cyanide was created using the color Prussian Blue and sulphuric acid. What connection does Labutut make between art and poison in the section about cyanide and why?

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