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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. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Refrigeration.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) General physics.

2. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Von Neumann.
(b) Mor Karman.
(c) Michael Polanyi.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

3. How old is Hitler when he comes to power?
(a) 45.
(b) 33.
(c) 43.
(d) 25.

4. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?
(a) $6,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $16,000.
(d) $20,000.

5. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?
(a) The anticipated hydrogen bomb.
(b) The new cyclotron.
(c) The megatron accelerator.
(d) The anticipated atomic bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

2. Where is Site X located?

3. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

4. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

5. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

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