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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 is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Aeronautical physics.

2. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
(a) The atom.
(b) The proton.
(c) The electron.
(d) The neutron.

3. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

4. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Atoms.
(b) Gas.
(c) Crystallography.
(d) Radioactivity.

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(b) Because they want to go to Israel.
(c) Because they want to find better schooling.
(d) Because of family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?

3. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?

4. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

5. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

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