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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. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1949.

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

3. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?
(a) A way to make radios more efficient.
(b) A new radioactive element.
(c) A secret code.
(d) An anerobic organism that decomposes starch.

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

5. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Dichlormethylether.
(b) Chlorine.
(c) Nerve gas.
(d) Xylyl bromide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max Planck discover?

2. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

3. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?

4. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?

5. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

(see the answer key)

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