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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. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Copenhagen.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Princeton.

2. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Michael Polanyi.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Mor Karman.
(d) Von Neumann.

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

4. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?
(a) June, 1933.
(b) April, 1933.
(c) September, 1933.
(d) January, 1933.

5. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) Adolphus von Brogan.
(b) The czarist secret police.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?

2. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?

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

4. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?

5. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

(see the answer key)

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