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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. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 20.
(b) 80.
(c) 40.
(d) 60.

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

3. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are visitors from Mars.
(b) They are not all Hungarians.
(c) They are specially trained from birth.
(d) They are related.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

2. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?

3. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

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. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

(see the answer key)

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