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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When We Cease to Understand the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did Schwarzchild send his last letter to his wife?
(a) Serbia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Spain.
(d) Austria-Hungary.

2. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
(a) 22.
(b) Not quite 20.
(c) 19.
(d) Almost 18.

3. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?
(a) Alps.
(b) Carpathians.
(c) Pyrenees.
(d) Annapurna.

5. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?
(a) Diplomacy.
(b) Politics.
(c) Writer.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?

2. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?

3. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?

4. When did Germany sign the armistice to end the Great War?

5. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?

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