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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. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The destruction of Arians.
(b) The destruction of the Jews.
(c) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(d) The earlier education of child prodigies.

2. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) The czarist secret police.
(d) Adolphus von Brogan.

3. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) James Chadwick.
(b) Rolf Wideroe.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

4. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Photons.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Protons.
(d) Neutrons.

5. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?

2. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

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

4. 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?

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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