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

2. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

3. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $16,000.
(d) $6,000.

4. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1939.

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of family.
(b) Because they want to go to Israel.
(c) Because they want to find better schooling.
(d) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

2. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

3. In what state is the Hanford facility located?

4. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?

5. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

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