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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 did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1903.

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

3. How many puppies had Hitler's dog given birth to shortly before she was killed?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. At the fortress Schrodinger was assigned to during the Great War, how below him were trenches that soldiers were dying in?
(a) 3,000 meters.
(b) 2,000 meters.
(c) 3,500 meters.
(d) 2,500 meters.

5. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound could send Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond into a panic?

2. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?

3. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, in what direction was the nearest city?

4. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?

5. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?

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