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

2. How did de Broglie's comrade during World War I die?
(a) Drowned.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Heart attack.

3. When did Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1939.

4. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Munich.
(d) Paris.

5. When did the commune Grothendieck founded as a place open to all descend into lawlessness?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1925, what was the name of the woman on the island Heisenberg traveled to who devoted herself to his recovery?

2. What mountain could be seen from Mochizuki's office window at the University of Kyoto?

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

4. When was the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies built on at the outskirts of Paris?

5. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Labutut write about Heisenberg and his accomplishments?

2. When did Mochizuki become well known?

3. What deprivations did Erwin Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

4. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

5. Why did Heisenberg go to Heligoland in June 1925?

6. How did de Broglie become interested in science?

7. What analogy is used to describe Heisenberg's discovery?

8. Who is Mochizuki?

9. Who was one of the first people aware of the existence of Mochizuki's proof, and what was learned when he sent the proof to Ivan Fesenko?

10. What was Grothendieck's project at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies?

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