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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "Physics in Desert Country".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Photons.
(d) Protons.

2. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1933.

3. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1908.

4. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1941.

5. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Sonar.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Radar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?

2. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?

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

4. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

5. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?

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