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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 old is Hitler when he comes to power?
(a) 45.
(b) 43.
(c) 25.
(d) 33.

2. What element does Enrico Fermi and his team begin to experiment with?
(a) Barium.
(b) Plutonium.
(c) Uranium.
(d) Radon.

3. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Elsa.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Greta.

4. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Chaim Weizmann.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Harry Moseley.

5. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Water tension.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Quantam theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

2. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

3. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

4. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?

5. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

2. What two scientists come to Berkeley in 1928-1929 and what do they develop?

3. Why do the Jewish Hungarian scientists leave Hungary?

4. What is "Silverplate"?

5. What is the attitude of German physicists to Albert Einstein around 1919?

6. What is Chaim Weizmann's discovery that helps the British war effort?

7. What is Bohr's relationship to the period table?

8. What patent does Leo Szilard apply for in 1934 and where?

9. Where is the center for experimental physics after World War I?

10. What project is code named Mike and where is it designed and tested?

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