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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 gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Dichlormethylether.
(b) Nerve gas.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Xylyl bromide.

2. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?
(a) Hans Gieger.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Edward Teller.

3. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Holland.
(b) Poland.
(c) Austria.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

4. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?
(a) A mass spectrometer.
(b) Radar.
(c) The hydrogen bomb.
(d) The atomic bomb.

5. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(d) Leo Szilard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

2. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?

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

4. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?

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

(see the answer key)

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