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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. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?
(a) November 6, 1941.
(b) November 30, 1941.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) December 6, 1941.

2. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?
(a) Princeton Foundation.
(b) Nobel Foundation.
(c) Lewis Strauss.
(d) Neils Bohr.

3. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1941.

4. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Leo Sziland.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

5. What is Alsos?
(a) A security unit established by Groves.
(b) The American League for Southern Officers.
(c) The American League Sons of Soldiers.
(d) A nickname for Los Alamos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?

2. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

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

4. Where is particle acceleration developed?

5. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?

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