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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 is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(b) The discovery of the proton.
(c) The discovery of the neutron.
(d) The design of the cyclotron.

2. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Karman.
(b) de Hevesy.
(c) Schossberger.
(d) Polanyi.

3. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) George de Hevesy.

4. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?
(a) Nuclear chain reaction.
(b) Refrigeration.
(c) Ionization.
(d) Nuclear power production.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?

2. Where does the crew who is training for delivering of the atomic bomb go for training with radar and flying over water?

3. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

4. When does World War II begin?

5. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?

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