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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 type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) Rottweiler.
(b) Belgian Malinois.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Doberman Pinscher.

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

3. In the Nazi party, how many navy generals committed suicide?
(a) 22.
(b) 31.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

4. 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) 175,000.
(b) About 300,000.
(c) More than 250,000.
(d) 230,000.

5. How did Goring die?
(a) Electric chair.
(b) Hanged.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Cyanide.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Einstein receive an envelope sent from the trenches of World War I?

2. What was the name of Schwarzchild's brother who was a painter in Hamburg?

3. How long have Einstein published his theory of general relativity did Schwarzchild provide a solution?

4. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

5. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was said about the charisma of Johann Conrad Dippel?

5. How did Hitler's dog die?

6. How was Prussian Blue discovered, and why did it become popular?

7. Why did Fritz Haber win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

8. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

9. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

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