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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. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Harry Moseley.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Chaim Weizmann.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

2. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Manchester.

3. Who says, "I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting."
(a) Paul W. Tibbets.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) President Truman.
(d) Curtis LeMay.

4. Where is Site X located?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Washington.
(d) California.

5. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Air.
(c) Water.
(d) Heavy water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

3. 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?

4. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

5. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?

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