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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. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 48.
(b) 1.
(c) 19.
(d) 29.

2. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Margrethe.
(b) Susan.
(c) Helga.
(d) Sorena.

3. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?
(a) United States.
(b) England.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Austria.

4. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1902.

5. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) John Karman.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) George de Hevesy.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

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

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

5. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

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