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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 is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Aeronautical physics.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

2. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Manchester.
(b) New York.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Budapest.

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1902.

4. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Max von Laue.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Isaac Newton.

5. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?

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

3. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

4. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

5. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

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