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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 is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?
(a) King Edward VII.
(b) Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(c) George III.
(d) Prince Edward.

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

3. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Berkeley.

4. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Albert Teller.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Max Planck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?

2. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?

3. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

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

5. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?

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