When We Cease to Understand the World Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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When We Cease to Understand the World Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Benjamin Labatut
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Schwarzschild's Singularity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) Thousands of years.
(c) Until the end of the universe.
(d) Decades.

2. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
(a) Martin.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Elias.
(d) Alfred.

3. 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.

4. What type of Jews are especially susceptible to the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Mizrahim.
(b) Teimanim.
(c) Ashkenazi.
(d) Georgian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?

2. How many times did the Russian have to cut down a woman who tried to hang herself from an oak tree after burying her children under the tree?

3. How did Goring die?

4. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?

5. Over the course of three days, in what town did men, women, and children commit suicide when the Germans destroyed the bridges leading west?

(see the answer key)

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