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

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

3. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
(a) Accelerator tube.
(b) Cloud chamber.
(c) X-ray.
(d) Bubble chamber.

4. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Austria.
(b) Poland.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Holland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?

2. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

3. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

4. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

5. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?

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