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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 does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?
(a) An anerobic organism that decomposes starch.
(b) A way to make radios more efficient.
(c) A new radioactive element.
(d) A secret code.

2. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Helga.
(b) Susan.
(c) Sorena.
(d) Margrethe.

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

2. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

3. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

4. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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