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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 confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Fyodor Vinbert.
(b) James Chadwick.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Max von Laue.

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Edinburgh.
(b) University of Manchester.
(c) University of Copenhagen.
(d) University of Berlin.

3. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?
(a) Copenhagen.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Princeton.

4. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
(a) Andrew Lawrence.
(b) George Pegram.
(c) Vannevar Bush.
(d) Leo Szilard.

5. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) Home refrigeration theory.
(b) The atom.
(c) The neutron.
(d) A universal constant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?

2. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?

3. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

4. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

5. Who is Averell Harriman?

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