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

2. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) James Chadwick.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) Fyodor Vinbert.

4. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?
(a) Relativity.
(b) Experimental physics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?
(a) Nuclear power production.
(b) Ionization.
(c) Nuclear chain reaction.
(d) Refrigeration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

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

3. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

5. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

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