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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. What did doctors believe might have triggered the disease that killed Schwarzchild?
(a) Fungus.
(b) Infection.
(c) Gas attack.
(d) Allergy.

2. How did Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry at a German university, kill herself?
(a) Hung herself.
(b) Shot herself in the chest.
(c) Shot herself in the head.
(d) Took cyanide.

3. Where was Goring's body cremated?
(a) Bogenhausen.
(b) Ostfriedhof.
(c) Haidhausen.
(d) Nordfriedhof.

4. At what observatory did Schwarzschild intern?
(a) Liebniz.
(b) Stuttgart.
(c) Starkenburg.
(d) Kuffner.

5. At the Nuremburg Tribunal how was Goring condemned to die?
(a) Electric chair.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Lethal injection.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?

2. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?

3. When did Berlin fall?

4. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?

5. When a binary star went nova in a constellation during Schwarzschild's internship, how how did he say awake observing it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Schwarzschild solve Einstein's equation of general relativity?

2. What milestones did Schwarzschild reach even before he was 20?

3. What rash of suicides erupted in 1945 in Demmin, Germany, and why?

4. How was Goring sentenced to die; how did he want to die; and how did he die?

5. What was Pervitin, and how was it used by German troops?

6. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?

7. How did Schwarzschild describe a gas attack he was in?

8. How did Hitler's dog die?

9. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?

10. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?

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