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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 discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

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

3. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) The neutron.
(b) A universal constant.
(c) The atom.
(d) Home refrigeration theory.

4. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1911.

5. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Fyodor Vinbert.
(d) James Chadwick.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?

2. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

3. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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

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

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