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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 1.
(b) 29.
(c) 48.
(d) 19.
2. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A professor.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(d) A financier.
3. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Vienna.
(d) New York.
4. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1912.
5. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Cambridge.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
2. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
3. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
5. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What patent does Leo Szilard apply for in 1934 and where?
2. Who produces the first controlled nuclear fission reaction and where and when does it take place?
3. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?
4. How does President Roosevelt authenticate his decision to expedite the research of the atomic bomb?
5. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?
6. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?
7. What is the character of Budapest in the early 1900's?
8. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?
9. Why is Hiroshima chosen to be the first target for the bomb?
10. What project is code named Mike and where is it designed and tested?
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