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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 type of Jews are especially susceptible to the disease that killed Schwarzchild?

2. How old was Schwarzschild when he enlisted during World War I?

3. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?

4. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was cyanide used in an attempt to kill Grigori Rasputin, and how was he finally killed?

2. What was Pervitin, and how was it used by German troops?

3. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

4. What did Schwarzschild observe during his internship at the Kuffner observatory?

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

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

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

8. How did Hitler's dog die?

9. What letter did Albert Einstein receive on December 24, 1915?

10. How did Schwarzschild damage the cornea of his left eye?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Schrodinger was diagnosed with tuberculosis after a bout with bronchitis. Why did Schrodinger battle the disease off and on for the rest of his life?

Essay Topic 3

An epiphany is a realization that can be enlightening and help solve a situation or problem. What epiphanies does Werner Heisenberg have? How do these epiphanies help him with his research?

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