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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?
(a) Edward Wigner.
(b) Lou Geirigh.
(c) Hans Geiger.
(d) Otto Reichart.

2. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?
(a) Lisa Meitner.
(b) Patrick Blacket.
(c) T.A. Chalmers.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

3. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Chaim Weizmann.
(b) Harry Moseley.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

4. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The destruction of Arians.
(b) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(c) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(d) The destruction of the Jews.

5. 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.

6. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?
(a) He discovers uranium.
(b) He is a child prodigy mathematician.
(c) He writes a book.
(d) He is a child prodigy violinist.

7. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) James Maxwell.
(b) Fyodor Vinbert.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Max Planck.

8. In the 1930's, where do Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman work when they are trying to sort out the elements created by neutron bombardment of the heaviest elements?
(a) Univeristy of Berlin.
(b) Tubingen University.
(c) Kaiser Wilheim Institute.
(d) Univeristy of Franfurt.

9. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Manchester.
(c) New York.
(d) Budapest.

10. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Subway.
(b) Trains.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Buses.

11. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) John Karman.

12. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

13. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

14. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Maria.
(c) Anna.
(d) Rho.

15. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) December 10, 1932.
(b) December 8, 1931.
(c) January 30, 1933.
(d) April 30, 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

2. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

3. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

4. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?

5. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

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