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

2. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) The uncertainty principle.
(c) The relativity theory.
(d) Complementarity.

3. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) DuPont.
(b) IBM.
(c) Boeing.
(d) Eastman Kodak.

4. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

5. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1943.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

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

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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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