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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 Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?

2. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?

3. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, how close was the nearest city?

4. How old was Mochizuki when he already had his doctorate?

5. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did de Broglie end his career?

2. Who was one of the first people aware of the existence of Mochizuki's proof, and what was learned when he sent the proof to Ivan Fesenko?

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

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

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

6. Who was Grothendieck's last visitor before his death in 2014?

7. How sick did Heisenberg get while he was at Heligoland?

8. What was Grothendieck's lifelong obsession, and what was one of his greatest discoveries?

9. What was Vienna like after the Great War?

10. Who was Niels Bohr?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A frame story sets the scene for a story within a story. What is the frame story in ”The Heart of the Heart”? How does it reveal a connection between scientific study and an unstable mind?

Essay Topic 2

Schrodinger used metaphors to describe subatomic particles. How did he use metaphors to describe subatomic particles? Why did Werner Heisenberg hate using metaphors for subatomic particles and what did he believe should be used instead?

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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