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

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

3. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Budapest.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

2. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?

3. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

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