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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Exodus".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
(a) Read science books.
(b) Write equations.
(c) Recite the periodic table.
(d) Multiply six figure numbers in his head.

2. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Berkeley.

3. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Leo Szilard.

4. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Manchester.
(b) University of Edinburgh.
(c) University of Copenhagen.
(d) University of Berlin.

5. Who designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Chadwick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?

2. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

3. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?

4. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

5. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

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