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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "Physics in Desert Country".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The destruction of Arians.
(b) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(c) The destruction of the Jews.
(d) The founding of a Jewish homeland.

3. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?
(a) Leo Sziland.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

5. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1943.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does World War II begin?

3. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

4. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

5. Who discovers X-rays?

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