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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) A refrigerator that does not freeze.
(b) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(c) A matrix table for elements.
(d) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.

2. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Paris.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Cambridge.

3. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

4. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Elsa.
(c) Greta.
(d) Hannah.

5. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) The relativity theory.
(b) The uncertainty principle.
(c) Complementarity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?

2. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

3. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

4. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?

5. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?

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