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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Yehuda Menuhia.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(d) Lise Meitner.

2. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1933.

3. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1910.

4. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) Germany's invasion of Russia.
(b) England's plans to invade Germany.
(c) A secret Russian physics laboratory.
(d) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.

5. What indispensable item does Teller and his wife bring to Los Alamos?
(a) Grand piano.
(b) Cycotron.
(c) His experimetnal data.
(d) Lab books.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?

4. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

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

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