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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Doctor Herwig's daughter when she first contracted tuberculosis?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 28.
(d) 4.
2. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?
(a) Freiburg.
(b) Heidelberg.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Gottingen.
3. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Munich.
4. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?
(a) Rat.
(b) Seagull.
(c) Mouse.
(d) Fish.
5. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?
(a) June 1926.
(b) April 1926.
(c) May 1926.
(d) July 1926.
6. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.
7. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) A month.
(d) 4 months.
8. In 1925, when did Heisenberg's fever break?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Middle of the night.
(d) Noon.
9. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?
(a) Rifle.
(b) Revolver.
(c) 2 pistols.
(d) Bayonet.
10. How many luminaries from the Sorbonne were on the jury for de Broglie's doctoral thesis?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.
11. What type of animals were on the island Heisenberg visited in 1925?
(a) Mule deer.
(b) Goats.
(c) Antelope.
(d) Wild horses.
12. Who influenced Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie to study physics?
(a) A friend.
(b) A cousin.
(c) His older brother.
(d) An uncle.
13. How old was Mochizuki when he entered Princeton?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.
14. When did Niels Bohr receive the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.
15. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?
(a) December 2013.
(b) October 2013.
(c) March 2014.
(d) January 2014.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Schrodinger marry Annemarie Bertel?
2. In 1924, what hills did Heisenberg and Bohr explore together?
3. 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?
4. Who did de Broglie serve with and remain friends with after World War I?
5. How did Hafez break his fast after tracing a cricle in the sand?
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