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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 kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) Bombers.
(b) "Gothas".
(c) "Big Berthas".
(d) Cessnas.

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

3. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

4. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1902.

5. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

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

3. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

4. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?

5. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

(see the answer key)

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