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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 specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Quantam theory.
(c) Water tension.
(d) Atoms.

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

3. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(d) Leo Szilard.

4. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Berlin.
(b) University of Copenhagen.
(c) University of Manchester.
(d) University of Edinburgh.

5. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?

2. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

3. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

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

5. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?

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