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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long did it take the blisters to cover much of Schwarzchild's body?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) 3 weeks.
2. What did Schwarzschild perfect when his unit was first deployed?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Sights on the tanks.
(c) Sights on rifles.
(d) Telescopes.
3. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 31.
(d) 22.
4. In the Nazi party, how many generals from the army committed suicide?
(a) 37.
(b) 18.
(c) 53.
(d) 49.
5. 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) About 300,000.
(b) 175,000.
(c) 230,000.
(d) More than 250,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?
2. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?
3. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?
4. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
5. When was the first gas attack in history conducted?
Short Essay Questions
1. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?
2. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?
3. What was Pervitin, and how was it used by German troops?
4. How was Goring sentenced to die; how did he want to die; and how did he die?
5. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?
6. How was cyanide used in an attempt to kill Grigori Rasputin, and how was he finally killed?
7. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?
8. Why did Schwarzschild believe the singularity in his metrics was a mistake?
9. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?
10. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?
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