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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 Marie Curie die?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

2. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
(a) Hahn and Haber.
(b) Haber and Meitner.
(c) Hahn and Darwin.
(d) Darwin and Meitner.

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

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

5. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) George de Hevesy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

2. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

4. What is the subject of the patent Leo Szilard gives to Lewis Strass as a memorial to Strauss' parents?

5. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

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