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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Night Gardener.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. How must the plague be killed?
(a) Pesticides.
(b) Water.
(c) Ice.
(d) Fire.

3. Who does the night gardener say hung themselves from the tree he feared when he was a boy?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Father.

4. What did Heisenberg do at dawn every morning on the island he visited in 1925?
(a) Swim.
(b) Hike.
(c) Walk.
(d) Study.

5. Where does the plague breed?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Stems.
(c) Roots.
(d) Trunks.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who did Heisenberg nearly run into in 1925 on an island he visited who was trying to sell him something?

3. When did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

4. What was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?

5. After an exhibition of de Broglie's friend's paintings was horribly criticized, how long did de Broglie lock himself away and see no one but his sister?

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