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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. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) George de Hevesy.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Isaac Newton.

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

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

4. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?
(a) Edinburgh Laboratory.
(b) University of Copenhagan.
(c) University of Denmark.
(d) Cavendish Laboratory.

5. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Crystallography.
(b) Gas.
(c) Radioactivity.
(d) Atoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

2. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

4. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

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

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