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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 was the first gas attack in history conducted?

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

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

4. During a gas attack, how many soldiers did Schwarzschild help put on gas masks?

5. How long after Schwarzchild broke out with two blisters, did he die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Schwarzschild describe a gas attack he was in?

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

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

5. How did Hitler's dog die?

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

7. What was Schwarzschild's sickness and how did it progress?

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

9. How was Prussian Blue discovered, and why did it become popular?

10. How did Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover cyanide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cyanide was created using the color Prussian Blue and sulphuric acid. What connection does Labutut make between art and poison in the section about cyanide and why?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is historical fiction and metaphysical fiction?

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