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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. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(b) James Conant.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Lyman Briggs.

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

3. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?
(a) Lise Meitner.
(b) George Hans.
(c) German physicists.
(d) Hungarian physicists.

4. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.
(b) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(c) A refrigerator that does not freeze.
(d) A matrix table for elements.

5. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?
(a) Orange Pumpkin.
(b) Fat Man.
(c) Bock's Car.
(d) Number Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?

2. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?

3. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?

4. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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