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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What religion is Enrico Fermi?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Atheist.
(d) Protestant.

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1900.

4. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) James Maxwell.
(b) Max von Laue.
(c) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

5. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1935.

6. 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.

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

8. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Aeronautical physics.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

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

10. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1911.

11. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Albert Teller.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Max Planck.

12. 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.

13. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) General physics.
(d) Refrigeration.

14. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Radioactivity.
(b) Atoms.
(c) Crystallography.
(d) Gas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

2. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

3. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

5. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

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