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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 becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Polanyi.
(b) de Hevesy.
(c) Schossberger.
(d) Karman.

2. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Gas.
(b) Crystallography.
(c) Radioactivity.
(d) Atoms.

3. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Austria.
(b) Poland.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Holland.

4. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) General physics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

5. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Elsa.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Greta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

2. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?

3. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

4. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

5. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

(see the answer key)

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