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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
(a) Hahn and Darwin.
(b) Hahn and Haber.
(c) Haber and Meitner.
(d) Darwin and Meitner.

2. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

3. When do the Germans announce Hitler's suicide?
(a) April 30, 1945.
(b) Mary 7, 1945.
(c) May 1, 1945.
(d) May 20, 1945.

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

5. Who is Averell Harriman?
(a) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
(b) A physicist.
(c) U.S. representative to the United Nations.
(d) An Army General in the Pacific.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?

2. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

3. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

4. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?

5. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

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