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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. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) Isador Rabi.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) George Bush.

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

3. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From Leo Szilard.
(b) From a student.
(c) From the head of the faculty.
(d) From the Third Reich.

4. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Chicago.

5. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) IBM.
(b) Boeing.
(c) Eastman Kodak.
(d) DuPont.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

2. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

3. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

4. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?

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

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