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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 does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Radioactivity.
(b) Crystallography.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Gas.

2. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?
(a) Leland Stanford.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) George Rutherford.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Albert Teller.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Max Planck.

4. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?
(a) Szilard.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Teller.
(d) Oppenheimer.

5. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Fyodor Vinbert.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

2. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

3. How old is Hitler when he comes to power?

4. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

5. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?

(see the answer key)

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