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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. How old was Schrodinger in 1923?
(a) 41.
(b) 35.
(c) 43.
(d) 37.

2. When did Schrodinger join the Austro-Hungarian army as an office during the Great War?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1915.

3. What word does Labutut use to describe how Einstein felt about Heisenberg's ideas?
(a) Distasteful.
(b) Repulsive.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) Repugnant.

4. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?
(a) Pemphigoid.
(b) IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses.
(c) Epidermolysis bullosa acquista.
(d) Pemphigus.

5. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Schwarzchild's sickness begin?

2. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?

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

4. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

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