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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. What was Karl Schwarzschild's rank in the German army during World War I?
2. When was cyanide isolated from Prussian Blue?
3. When Schwarzschild wrote about the evolution of stars, how old was he?
4. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?
5. When did Schwarzschil travel to Algeria to observe a total eclipse?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Schwarzschild solve Einstein's equation of general relativity?
2. When was the first gas attack in history?
3. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?
4. Why did Schwarzschild believe the singularity in his metrics was a mistake?
5. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?
6. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?
7. At the age of seven, how did Schwarzschild show his brother the rings of Saturn?
8. When did the scientific community accept Schwarzschild's ideas as an inevitable consequence of the theory of relativity?
9. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?
10. What was strange about Schwarzschild's results when he solved Einstein's equations of general relativity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Grothendieck and Mochizuki were mathematicians. What did the men have in common? Why were both men considered geniuses?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
The book and section four are titled When We Cease to Understand the World. How does the title of the book and the title of section four relate to the theme of the incomprehensibility of the world?
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