1. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) Manhattan.

2. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(b) Yehuda Menuhia.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Lise Meitner.

3. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) Germany's invasion of Russia.
(b) England's plans to invade Germany.
(c) A secret Russian physics laboratory.
(d) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.

4. 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) Curtis LeMay.
(c) President Truman.
(d) Douglas MacArthur.

5. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Copenhagen.
(b) University of Manchester.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) University of Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

4. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?

5. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

(see the answer key)

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