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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 recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Albert Teller.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

2. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 80.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

3. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Nerve gas.
(b) Xylyl bromide.
(c) Dichlormethylether.
(d) Chlorine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

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

3. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?

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

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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