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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 designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Chadwick.
(d) Lawrence.

2. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?
(a) At his house.
(b) In a laboratory.
(c) In a basement.
(d) In a classroom.

3. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1939.

4. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Budapest.

5. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?
(a) 100 feet.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 100 yards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

2. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

3. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"

4. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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