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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 30, 1941.
(c) November 6, 1941.
(d) December 6, 1941.

2. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Zurich.

3. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?
(a) Princeton Foundation.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Neils Bohr.
(d) Nobel Foundation.

4. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 20.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?

2. What is Operation Barbarossa?

3. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?

4. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

5. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?

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