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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1886.

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Leo Szilard.

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

4. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1915.

5. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?
(a) 100 yards.
(b) 100 feet.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 1 mile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

3. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

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

5. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?

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