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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. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?
(a) His father's shoes climbing the stairs.
(b) Dogs barking.
(c) Cats howling.
(d) Changing of the guards.

2. How many doses of dihydrocodeine did Goring have when he was arrested?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 23,000.

3. Where did Grothendieck's father die?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Ravensbruck.
(c) Dachau.
(d) Buchenwald.

4. In April of 1945, how many people killed themselves in Berlin?
(a) 1,900.
(b) 2,700.
(c) 3,800.
(d) 4,100.

5. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Electric chair.
(d) Firing squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?

2. Where did de Broglie serve as a telegraph operator during World War I?

3. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?

4. How much of his time did Grothendieck dedicate to mathematics for many years?

5. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?

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