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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. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?
(a) 1 1/2 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 3 1/2 times.
(d) 2 times.

2. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?
(a) Stuttgart.
(b) Liebniz.
(c) Starkenburg.
(d) Kuffner.

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

4. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 8 minutes.
(d) 12 minutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?

2. When did Berlin fall?

3. 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?

4. When did Goring die?

5. What did doctors diagnose Schwarzchild with?

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