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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Violin.
(b) Cello.
(c) Piano.
(d) Trumpet.

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

3. How many tons of sarin did German scientists manufacture?
(a) 6,400.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 8,500.
(d) 7,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Fritz Haber die?

3. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

4. When did Schwarzchild marry?

5. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?

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