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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 theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) Complementarity.
(b) The uncertainty principle.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The relativity theory.

2. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 48.
(b) 1.
(c) 19.
(d) 29.

3. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) George de Hevesy.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the cyclotron.
(b) The discovery of the proton.
(c) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(d) The discovery of the neutron.

5. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?

2. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

3. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

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

5. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

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