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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "A Communication from Britain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) A Japanese diplomat.
(b) A British physicist.
(c) An American nuclear physicist.
(d) A Japanese physicist.

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Edinburgh.
(b) University of Copenhagen.
(c) University of Berlin.
(d) University of Manchester.

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

4. What religion is Enrico Fermi?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Atheist.

5. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1913.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

2. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

3. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?

4. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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