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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1747.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1763.
2. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Martin.
(d) Elias.
3. What instrument did Schwarzschild's father try to get him to learn?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Violin.
(c) Cello.
(d) Piano.
4. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 9 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 5 months.
5. How long have Einstein published his theory of general relativity did Schwarzchild provide a solution?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) A month or so.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 8 days.
6. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?
(a) More than 250,000.
(b) 230,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) 175,000.
7. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?
(a) September 1, 1939.
(b) September 23, 1939.
(c) September 16, 1939.
(d) September 4, 1939.
8. When did Fritz Haber die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1934.
9. What type of school did Schwarzschild attend as a child?
(a) Confessional school.
(b) Jewish primary school.
(c) Catholic school.
(d) German primary school.
10. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Gas attack.
(b) Allergy.
(c) Infection.
(d) Fungus.
11. How many humans do not have the gene that allows them to distinguish the odor of cyanide?
(a) 60%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 40%.
12. According to Schwarzschild's calculations, what would happen if a giant star exhaused its fuel and beings to collapse?
(a) It would bend.
(b) It would tear apart.
(c) It would implode.
(d) It would explode.
13. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1694.
(d) 1686.
14. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Shot herself in the chest.
(b) Hung herself.
(c) Shot herself in the head.
(d) Took cyanide.
15. When did Goring die?
(a) October 22, 1946.
(b) October 15, 1946.
(c) October 30, 1946.
(d) October 1, 1946.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color were Hermann Goring's fingers and toes stained when he was examined before the Nuremburg Trials?
2. How did Goring die?
3. How did many of those in the Reich leadership kill themselves?
4. What type of Jews are especially susceptible to the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
5. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
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