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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Different Animals".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

2. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of family.
(b) Because they want to go to Israel.
(c) Because they want to find better schooling.
(d) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.

3. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1942.

4. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Von Neumann.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Mor Karman.
(d) Michael Polanyi.

5. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) de Hevesy.
(b) Schossberger.
(c) Polanyi.
(d) Karman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alexander Sachs?

2. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

3. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

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