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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. Where did de Broglie serve as a telegraph operator during World War I?

2. Where was Mochizuki born?

3. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

4. How many days did Hafez spend in silence when he traced a circle in the sand and sat there?

5. When did Niels Bohr receive the Nobel Prize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Grothendieck's last visitor before his death in 2014?

2. What was Vienna like after the Great War?

3. How did a professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz describe Grothendieck?

4. What was known about Grothendieck's father?

5. Who is Mochizuki?

6. What contributions did Schrodinger make in later years, and how did they compare to what he produced at the tuberculosis sanitarium?

7. How did Labutut summarize Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics?

8. What happened after Grothendieck resigned from the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in 1970?

9. Who was Niels Bohr?

10. What deprivations did Erwin Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in “The Night Gardener”? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the setting?

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