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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "A Communication from Britain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?
(a) December 7, 1941.
(b) November 6, 1941.
(c) November 30, 1941.
(d) December 6, 1941.

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

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Albert Teller.

4. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) William Beveridge.
(b) A.E. Houseman.
(c) Edward Teller.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

5. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 20,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

2. In the 1930's, where do Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman work when they are trying to sort out the elements created by neutron bombardment of the heaviest elements?

3. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

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

5. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

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