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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

2. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?
(a) In a classroom.
(b) In a basement.
(c) At his house.
(d) In a laboratory.

3. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Holland.
(b) Austria.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Poland.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Leo Szilard.

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

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

12. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

13. How old is Hitler when he comes to power?
(a) 25.
(b) 43.
(c) 33.
(d) 45.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

2. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?

3. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?

4. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

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