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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Men from Mars".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) Complementarity.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) The uncertainty principle.
(d) The relativity theory.

2. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) December 10, 1932.
(b) January 30, 1933.
(c) April 30, 1932.
(d) December 8, 1931.

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Albert Teller.
(d) Max Planck.

4. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1902.

5. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Paris.
(d) Budapest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

3. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

4. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

5. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

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