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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "Revelations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) General physics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Copenhagen.
(b) University of Berlin.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) University of Manchester.

3. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1912.

4. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Nerve gas.
(b) Xylyl bromide.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Dichlormethylether.

5. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Lyman Briggs.
(c) James Conant.
(d) Kenneth Bainbridge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1939, where is the only heavy water plant located?

3. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

4. When do the Germans invade Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?

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

(see the answer key)

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