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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "Revelations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

2. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1908.

3. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Yehuda Menuhia.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(d) Marie Curie.

4. In 1939, where is the only heavy water plant located?
(a) England.
(b) Norway.
(c) Germany.
(d) United States.

5. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Alexander Sachs.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Gustav Stolper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

2. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

3. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

4. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

5. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

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