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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. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Aeronautical physics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

2. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?
(a) Electrons.
(b) The atom.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) The surface tension of water.

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

4. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.
(b) England's plans to invade Germany.
(c) Germany's invasion of Russia.
(d) A secret Russian physics laboratory.

5. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?
(a) Cavendish Laboratory.
(b) University of Denmark.
(c) Edinburgh Laboratory.
(d) University of Copenhagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

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

3. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?

4. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

5. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

(see the answer key)

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