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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. How many dihydrocodeine pills did Goring take daily?

2. What is the name for Pervitin today?

3. How many doses of dihydrocodeine did Goring have when he was arrested?

4. After an expedition to where did Alfred, Schwarzschild's brother, refuse to ever climb with Schwarzschild again?

5. When was the second time that Heinrich Boll wrote his family and asked for more Pervitin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Schwarzschild solve Einstein's equation of general relativity?

2. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

3. What addiction did Hermann Goring have?

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

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

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

7. Why did Clara Immerwahr kill herself?

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

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

10. How was Goring sentenced to die; how did he want to die; and how did he die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Grothendieck and Mochizuki were mathematicians. What did the men have in common? Why were both men considered geniuses?

Essay Topic 3

Niels Bohr mentors Werner Heisenberg. What type of relationship do the men have? How does the mentor/student relationship help Heisenberg with his research?

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