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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Tvi".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Albert Teller.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Max Planck.

2. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Richard Rhodes.
(c) H.G.Wells.
(d) Leo Szilard.

3. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) General physics.
(d) Refrigeration.

4. Who conceives the atomic bomb?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Leo Szilard.

5. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Budapest.
(b) New York.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Manchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

2. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

3. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

4. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

5. Who discovers X-rays?

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