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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 Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

2. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1942.

3. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(b) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(c) The destruction of Arians.
(d) The destruction of the Jews.

4. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Edward Teller.
(c) A.E. Houseman.
(d) William Beveridge.

5. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Radar.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Sonar.
(d) Atomic bomb.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

5. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?

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