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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 is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1910.

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

3. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1922.

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

5. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) His retirement.
(b) The plans for an atomic bomb.
(c) A neutron can split uranium.
(d) The existence of protons.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

4. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

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