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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heart of the Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Grothendieck die?
(a) November 28, 2014.
(b) November 13, 2014.
(c) November 2, 2014.
(d) November 22, 2014.

2. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Took cyanide.
(b) Shot herself in the head.
(c) Shot herself in the chest.
(d) Hung herself.

3. Where did Grothendieck's father die?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Ravensbruck.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Buchenwald.

4. When a binary star went nova during Schwarzschild's internship, for how many days was it the brightest object in the sky?
(a) Several days.
(b) A week.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 7 days.

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?
(a) September 16, 1939.
(b) September 23, 1939.
(c) September 1, 1939.
(d) September 4, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what temperature does blue acid boil?

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

3. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?

4. When did the commune Grothendieck founded as a place open to all descend into lawlessness?

5. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

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