The Making of the Atomic Bomb Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?
(a) 1 mile.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 100 feet.

3. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1949.

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

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) German nobility.
(b) Government bureaucracy.
(c) Other European commercial groups.
(d) Old Hungarian nobility.

6. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Schossberger.
(b) de Hevesy.
(c) Polanyi.
(d) Karman.

7. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Water.
(b) Carbon.
(c) Air.
(d) Heavy water.

8. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Wilhelm Roentgen.

9. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
(a) Multiply six figure numbers in his head.
(b) Write equations.
(c) Read science books.
(d) Recite the periodic table.

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

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

12. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1932.

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

14. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Protons.
(c) Photons.
(d) Electrons.

15. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 20.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 80.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Marie Curie die?

2. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

4. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

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

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