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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. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?
(a) He is a child prodigy mathematician.
(b) He discovers uranium.
(c) He writes a book.
(d) He is a child prodigy violinist.

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

3. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Subway.
(b) Buses.
(c) Trains.
(d) Airplanes.

4. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?
(a) Mark Oliphant.
(b) Henry Tizard.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Otto Frisch.

5. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(b) Otto Hahn.
(c) The War Office.
(d) Hans Geiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?

2. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?

3. What element does Enrico Fermi and his team begin to experiment with?

4. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

5. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

(see the answer key)

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