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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "The Evils of This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) Boeing.
(b) Eastman Kodak.
(c) DuPont.
(d) IBM.

2. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Protons.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Photons.

3. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Paris.
(c) Stockholm.
(d) Manchester.

4. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1903.

5. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Experimental physics.
(c) Relativity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does President Roosevelt die?

2. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?

3. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?

4. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

5. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

(see the answer key)

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