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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Men from Mars".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1917.

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

5. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

3. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

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

5. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

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