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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. When does Marie Curie die?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

2. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(b) Otto Hahn.
(c) Hans Geiger.
(d) The War Office.

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

4. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) Government bureaucracy.
(b) Old Hungarian nobility.
(c) Other European commercial groups.
(d) German nobility.

5. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) The existence of protons.
(b) His retirement.
(c) A neutron can split uranium.
(d) The plans for an atomic bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers X-rays?

2. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

3. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

4. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?

5. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?

(see the answer key)

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