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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Chaim Weizmann.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Harry Moseley.

2. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Water tension.
(b) Quantam theory.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Atomic bomb.

3. What religion is Enrico Fermi?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Catholic.

4. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Leo Szilard.

5. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Photons.
(c) Protons.
(d) Neutrons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

2. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

3. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?

4. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?

5. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?

(see the answer key)

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