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

2. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) A.E. Houseman.
(b) William Beveridge.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Edward Teller.

3. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Harry Moseley.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Max Planck.

4. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) The czarist secret police.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) Adolphus von Brogan.

5. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Manchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

2. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?

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

4. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

5. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?

(see the answer key)

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