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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 does Enrico Fermi marry?
(a) Laura Capon.
(b) Maria Karenina.
(c) Julian Carian.
(d) Anna Toble.

2. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

3. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?
(a) 75.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 25.

4. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Susan.
(b) Sorena.
(c) Helga.
(d) Margrethe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

3. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

4. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

5. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

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