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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In June of 2016, how much was paid for a pair of Goring's underpants?

3. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

4. How long did Schwarzchild realize that his singularity would last if it really existed?

5. When Schwarzschild was doing his internship, in what constellation did a binary star go nova?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Schwarzschild serve in the military during World War I?

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

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

5. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?

6. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

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

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

9. How did Hitler's dog die?

10. At the age of seven, how did Schwarzschild show his brother the rings of Saturn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schrodinger used metaphors to describe subatomic particles. How did he use metaphors to describe subatomic particles? Why did Werner Heisenberg hate using metaphors for subatomic particles and what did he believe should be used instead?

Essay Topic 2

Schwarzchild created a makeshift telescope when he was seven. What accomplishments did Schwarzchild have by the time he was 28? Was he a prodigy?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Labutut use artistic license to create the realistic background of When We Cease to Understand the World?

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