View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?
(a) The new cyclotron.
(b) The anticipated atomic bomb.
(c) The anticipated hydrogen bomb.
(d) The megatron accelerator.

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

3. Where is the Trinity test site?
(a) Marshall Islands.
(b) Nevada desert.
(c) Alamogordo, New Mexico.
(d) Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) James Chadwick.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Rolf Wideroe.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

5. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Chadwick.
(c) Bohr.
(d) Groves.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Germans announce Hitler's suicide?

2. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?

3. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?

4. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 173 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample