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

2. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?
(a) Edmond de Rothchild.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) J.P. Morgan.
(d) David Lloyd George.

3. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1943.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?

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

3. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

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

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

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