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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "The Evils of This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 75.

2. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) Eastman Kodak.
(b) Boeing.
(c) DuPont.
(d) IBM.

3. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Quantam theory.
(b) Water tension.
(c) Atomic bomb.
(d) Atoms.

4. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?
(a) June 1943.
(b) January 1943.
(c) January 1944.
(d) November 1943.

5. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

2. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?

3. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?

4. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?

5. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

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