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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Manchester.
(b) New York.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Vienna.

2. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?
(a) In a classroom.
(b) In a basement.
(c) At his house.
(d) In a laboratory.

3. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?
(a) Cavendish Laboratory.
(b) University of Denmark.
(c) University of Copenhagan.
(d) Edinburgh Laboratory.

4. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Heidegger.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Kant.
(d) Kierkegaard.

5. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?
(a) Chaim Weizmann.
(b) Theodor von Penski.
(c) George de Hevesy.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

2. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?

3. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?

4. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

5. In what state is the Hanford facility located?

(see the answer key)

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