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When We Cease to Understand the World Quiz

Benjamin Labatut

This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of When We Cease to Understand the World.

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why did Fritz Haber feel guilty at the end of his life? (from Chapter 1)

Because of his unhealthy relationship with his children.

Because of his disloyalty to his wife.

Because of his role in inventing nitrogen-based fertilizers.

Because of his role in inventing chemical weapons.

2.

What does Louis de Broglie propose? (from Chapter 4)

That Einstein's theory of general relativity is false.

That the sun rotates around Earth.

That a collapsing star produces a black hole.

That all matter exists as both a wave and a particle.

3.

What causes Heisenberg to experience a hallucination in the park? (from Chapter 4)

A psychedelic that Schrödinger gives him.

His fasting.

The unknown liquid that a stranger gives him.

His lack of sleep in the preceding days.

4.

Why does Alexander Grothendieck abandon mathematics? (from Chapter 3)

Because he falls in love with a handsome younger man.

Because he does not achieve his dream of becoming a university professor.

Because he becomes obsessed with bicycles.

Because he believes that his theories are dangerous.

5.

Who tells the narrator about Fritz Haber? (from Chapter 5)

The narrator's wife.

The night gardener.

The retired lieutenant.

The mayor of the small town.

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