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

2. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1939.

3. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?
(a) Electrons.
(b) The atom.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) The surface tension of water.

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

5. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the cyclotron.
(b) The discovery of the neutron.
(c) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(d) The discovery of the proton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

2. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

3. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

4. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?

5. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?

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