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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 the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Quantam theory.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Water tension.
(d) Atoms.

2. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?
(a) England.
(b) United States.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Austria.

3. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Heavy water.
(b) Air.
(c) Water.
(d) Carbon.

4. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Stockholm.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Paris.

5. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

2. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?

3. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

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

5. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

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