[spc476]

Odd. One of the English questions asks "Who is Count Bismark?" The answer given is, "Count (Otto von) Bismark (1815-1898) was creator and first chancellor of the German Empire (1871-1890)." But this is the MIT Entrance Exam of 1869-70, one year before Count Bismark became the first chancellor. Either the year of the exam is wrong, or it was expected that Bismark was going to become the next ruler of Germany.

[michael_dorfman]

More likely, the answers provided are not from an original answer sheet, but were researched by someone more recently.

(Note that they are not scanned in from an original document like the questions.)

Bismarck was already a world-historical personage by 1869, and anybody applying to MIT would have likely been able to identify him.