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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 Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) A neutron can split uranium.
(b) His retirement.
(c) The existence of protons.
(d) The plans for an atomic bomb.

2. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Stockholm.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Paris.
(d) Manchester.

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1877.

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are related.
(b) They are specially trained from birth.
(c) They are visitors from Mars.
(d) They are not all Hungarians.

5. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion is Enrico Fermi?

2. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

3. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

4. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?

5. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

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