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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 is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) Ionization.
(c) Nuclear chain reaction.
(d) Nuclear power production.

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

3. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
(a) George Pegram.
(b) Vannevar Bush.
(c) Andrew Lawrence.
(d) Leo Szilard.

4. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) Adolphus von Brogan.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) The czarist secret police.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?
(a) Hans Gieger.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) Edward Teller.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the Hanford facility located?

2. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?

3. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

4. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?

5. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

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