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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. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From Leo Szilard.
(b) From a student.
(c) From the head of the faculty.
(d) From the Third Reich.

2. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) April 30, 1932.
(b) December 8, 1931.
(c) January 30, 1933.
(d) December 10, 1932.

3. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?
(a) June, 1933.
(b) January, 1933.
(c) September, 1933.
(d) April, 1933.

4. Who conceives the atomic bomb?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

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

4. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

5. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

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