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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?
(a) French.
(b) Russians.
(c) Americans.
(d) British.

2. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Water.
(c) Heavy water.
(d) Air.

3. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Rolf Wideroe.
(d) James Chadwick.

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

5. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alexander Sachs?

2. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?

3. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

4. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?

5. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

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