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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Exodus".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Cavendish Laboratory.
(c) University of Manchester.
(d) Marie Curie's Radium Institute.

2. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) A refrigerator that does not freeze.
(b) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(c) A matrix table for elements.
(d) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.

3. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Experimental physics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Mathematics.

4. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) Government bureaucracy.
(b) Other European commercial groups.
(c) Old Hungarian nobility.
(d) German nobility.

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(b) Because they want to go to Israel.
(c) Because they want to find better schooling.
(d) Because of family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

2. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

3. Where is particle acceleration developed?

4. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

(see the answer key)

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