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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1925, why did Heisenberg run back to his hotel after nearly running into someone who was trying to sell him something?
(a) He cut his hand.
(b) His sprained his ankle.
(c) He was dizzy.
(d) He had a migraine.

2. After talking a walk and discuss Asian philosophy with Miss Herwig, how did Schrodinger hurt himself?
(a) Wrenched his shoulder.
(b) Hit his head.
(c) Sprained his ankle.
(d) Cut his hand.

3. What family members did Schrodinger lose during the interwar period?
(a) Father and grandfather.
(b) Both grandparents.
(c) Father and sister.
(d) Both parents.

4. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?
(a) 4,000 meters.
(b) 3,000 meters.
(c) 2,500 meters.
(d) 3,500 meters.

5. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?
(a) 22.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

6. When Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond was a boy, what career was it presumed he would pursue?
(a) Writer.
(b) Diplomacy.
(c) Politics.
(d) Mathematics.

7. What was the nationality of Heisenberg's mentor Niels Bohr?
(a) Danish.
(b) Norwegian.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Finnish.

8. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

9. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?
(a) 35.
(b) 32.
(c) 33.
(d) 34.

10. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, how close was the nearest city?
(a) More than 100 kilometers.
(b) About 170 kilometers.
(c) 205 kilometers.
(d) 150 kilometers.

11. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?
(a) June 1926.
(b) July 1926.
(c) May 1926.
(d) April 1926.

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

13. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1960.

14. When was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?
(a) 1958 to 1973.
(b) 1945 to 1980.
(c) 1952 to 1978.
(d) 1960 to 1981.

15. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond's sister who pampered him?

2. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?

3. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?

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?

5. When did Grothendieck win the Fields Medal?

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