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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 Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1920.

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Isaac Newton.

3. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

4. 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) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

5. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Radar.
(b) Sonar.
(c) Atomic bomb.
(d) Radiation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

3. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?

4. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

5. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

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