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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 filled Miss Herwig's room?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Maps.
(c) Collections of insects.
(d) Books.
2. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?
(a) 2,500 meters.
(b) 3,500 meters.
(c) 3,000 meters.
(d) 4,000 meters.
3. When did Goethe write the poems Heisenberg tried to memorize in 1925?
(a) 1817.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1826.
4. At the fortress Schrodinger was assigned to during the Great War, how below him were trenches that soldiers were dying in?
(a) 2,000 meters.
(b) 3,000 meters.
(c) 3,500 meters.
(d) 2,500 meters.
5. When did Mochizuki prove one of Alexander Grothendieck's conjectures?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?
2. In 1925, what was the name of the woman on the island Heisenberg traveled to who devoted herself to his recovery?
3. How many years did Grothendieck's father spend in prison before he was freed during the Russian Revolution of 1917?
4. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?
5. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Labutut summarize Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics?
2. Who is Mochizuki?
3. How did de Broglie end his career?
4. When and how did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?
5. 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?
6. What limitations did Heisenberg set on his research during his time in Heligoland?
7. What did Einstein say about Heisenberg's ideas?
8. Who was Niels Bohr?
9. What was Vienna like after the Great War?
10. How sick did Heisenberg get while he was at Heligoland?
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