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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 World War II begin?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1934.

2. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Paris.
(d) Stockholm.

3. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Sorena.
(b) Susan.
(c) Helga.
(d) Margrethe.

4. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

5. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) Otto Hahn.
(b) Hans Geiger.
(c) The War Office.
(d) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

3. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

5. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?

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