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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Kaiser Wilheim Institute.
(b) Univeristy of Berlin.
(c) Univeristy of Franfurt.
(d) Tubingen University.

2. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because they want to find better schooling.
(b) Because of family.
(c) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(d) Because they want to go to Israel.

3. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?
(a) Marie Curie's Radium Institute.
(b) Cavendish Laboratory.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) University of Manchester.

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

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

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

7. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?
(a) John von Neumann.
(b) Edward Teller.
(c) J.J. Thompson.
(d) Hans Gieger.

8. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1902.

9. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?
(a) Splitting.
(b) Fission.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Bombardment.

10. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From Leo Szilard.
(b) From the Third Reich.
(c) From the head of the faculty.
(d) From a student.

11. What is the subject of the patent Leo Szilard gives to Lewis Strass as a memorial to Strauss' parents?
(a) Nucelar chain reaction.
(b) Solar energy.
(c) Refrigeration.
(d) Production of radioactive cobalt.

12. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Nuclear physics.

13. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
(a) Bubble chamber.
(b) X-ray.
(c) Accelerator tube.
(d) Cloud chamber.

14. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?
(a) Lewis Strauss.
(b) Nobel Foundation.
(c) Neils Bohr.
(d) Princeton Foundation.

15. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?
(a) January, 1933.
(b) September, 1933.
(c) June, 1933.
(d) April, 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

2. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

3. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

4. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

5. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

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