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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Machines".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

3. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Isaac Newton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who designs the first working cyclotron?

2. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

3. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

4. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?

5. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

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