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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?
(a) Eugene Wigner.
(b) Theodor von Penski.
(c) George de Hevesy.
(d) Chaim Weizmann.

2. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Water tension.
(c) Quantam theory.
(d) Atoms.

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

4. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?
(a) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

5. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(b) The destruction of Arians.
(c) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(d) The destruction of the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

2. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?

3. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

5. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

(see the answer key)

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