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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. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) April 30, 1932.
(b) December 8, 1931.
(c) January 30, 1933.
(d) December 10, 1932.

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

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

4. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1905.

5. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?
(a) Los Alamos.
(b) Hanford.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Oak Ridge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?

3. 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?

4. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?

5. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

(see the answer key)

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