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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 Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

2. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?
(a) December 7, 1941.
(b) November 6, 1941.
(c) November 30, 1941.
(d) December 6, 1941.

3. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

4. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) A universal constant.
(b) Home refrigeration theory.
(c) The atom.
(d) The neutron.

5. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Henry Tizard.
(c) James Conant.
(d) Mark Oliphant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

3. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?

4. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?

5. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?

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