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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?
(a) Beta decay.
(b) Relativity.
(c) Neutron bombardment.
(d) Ionization.

2. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1902.

3. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
(a) Darwin and Meitner.
(b) Hahn and Haber.
(c) Haber and Meitner.
(d) Hahn and Darwin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

2. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

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

4. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

5. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

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