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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Kurt Mendelssohn.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

2. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?
(a) Richard Rhodes.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) H.G.Wells.

3. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From Leo Szilard.
(b) From the Third Reich.
(c) From a student.
(d) From the head of the faculty.

4. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) A neutron can split uranium.
(b) The plans for an atomic bomb.
(c) The existence of protons.
(d) His retirement.

5. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Fyodor Vinbert.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Max von Laue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

2. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

3. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

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

5. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

(see the answer key)

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