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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Different Animals".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
(a) George Pegram.
(b) Vannevar Bush.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Andrew Lawrence.

2. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are specially trained from birth.
(b) They are not all Hungarians.
(c) They are related.
(d) They are visitors from Mars.

3. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Polanyi.
(b) Karman.
(c) Schossberger.
(d) de Hevesy.

4. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) Otto Hahn.
(b) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(c) Hans Geiger.
(d) The War Office.

5. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Water.
(b) Heavy water.
(c) Carbon.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

2. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?

3. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?

4. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?

5. 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?

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