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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1908.

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

4. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

3. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?

5. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

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