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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. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Subway.
(c) Buses.
(d) Trains.

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

3. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1886.

4. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A professor.
(b) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A financier.

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) German nobility.
(b) Other European commercial groups.
(c) Old Hungarian nobility.
(d) Government bureaucracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?

2. 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?

3. Who is the Chief of Security for Groves?

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

5. When does World War II begin?

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