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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Eugene Wigner.
(b) Von Neumann.
(c) Michael Polanyi.
(d) Mor Karman.

2. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?
(a) J.P. Morgan.
(b) David Lloyd George.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Edmond de Rothchild.

3. Who designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Chadwick.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Rutherford.

4. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Kant.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Heidegger.
(d) Kierkegaard.

5. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

2. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

3. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

4. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?

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

(see the answer key)

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