The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Albert Einstein.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

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) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

5. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?

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

3. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

4. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

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

(see the answer key)

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