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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are related.
(b) They are visitors from Mars.
(c) They are not all Hungarians.
(d) They are specially trained from birth.

2. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Karman.
(b) Polanyi.
(c) Schossberger.
(d) de Hevesy.

3. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?
(a) England.
(b) Austria.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) United States.

4. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) James Chadwick.
(b) James Maxwell.
(c) Fyodor Vinbert.
(d) Max Planck.

5. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Radioactivity.
(b) Crystallography.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?

2. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?

3. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?

4. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

5. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

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