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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 violinist.
(b) He is a child prodigy mathematician.
(c) He discovers uranium.
(d) He writes a book.

2. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?
(a) In a classroom.
(b) In a laboratory.
(c) In a basement.
(d) At his house.

3. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
(a) Read science books.
(b) Multiply six figure numbers in his head.
(c) Write equations.
(d) Recite the periodic table.

4. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Experimental physics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) Mathematics.

5. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) John Karman.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

2. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?

3. When does Marie Curie die?

4. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

5. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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