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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 19.
(b) 48.
(c) 29.
(d) 1.

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

4. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Von Neumann.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Mor Karman.
(d) Michael Polanyi.

5. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1913.

6. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
(a) The atom.
(b) The proton.
(c) The neutron.
(d) The electron.

7. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?
(a) Hungarian physicists.
(b) German physicists.
(c) George Hans.
(d) Lise Meitner.

8. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are visitors from Mars.
(b) They are specially trained from birth.
(c) They are not all Hungarians.
(d) They are related.

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

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

11. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) England.
(c) United States.
(d) Austria.

12. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?
(a) University of Denmark.
(b) Edinburgh Laboratory.
(c) University of Copenhagan.
(d) Cavendish Laboratory.

13. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1886.

14. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) Otto Hahn.
(b) Hans Geiger.
(c) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(d) The War Office.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

2. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?

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

4. What does Max Planck discover?

5. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

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