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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From the Third Reich.
(b) From a student.
(c) From Leo Szilard.
(d) From the head of the faculty.

2. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.
(b) England's plans to invade Germany.
(c) A secret Russian physics laboratory.
(d) Germany's invasion of Russia.

3. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Max von Laue.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Fyodor Vinbert.

4. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?
(a) 100 feet.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 100 yards.
(d) 2 miles.

5. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

2. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?

3. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

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

5. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?

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