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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. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Yehuda Menuhia.
(d) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.

2. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) George Pegram.
(c) Andrew Lawrence.
(d) Leo Szilard.

3. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) Bombers.
(b) "Gothas".
(c) "Big Berthas".
(d) Cessnas.

4. What element does Enrico Fermi and his team begin to experiment with?
(a) Plutonium.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Barium.
(d) Radon.

5. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?

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

3. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?

4. What religion is Enrico Fermi?

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

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