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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 50.

2. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the cyclotron.
(b) The discovery of the neutron.
(c) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(d) The discovery of the proton.

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

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

5. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

6. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?
(a) Experimental physics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Relativity.

7. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?
(a) Edward Wigner.
(b) Otto Reichart.
(c) Hans Geiger.
(d) Lou Geirigh.

8. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) A matrix table for elements.
(b) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.
(c) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(d) A refrigerator that does not freeze.

9. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Chaim Weizmann.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

10. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Yehuda Menuhia.
(c) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(d) Lise Meitner.

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

12. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Elsa.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Greta.

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

14. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Chlorine.
(b) Dichlormethylether.
(c) Nerve gas.
(d) Xylyl bromide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

2. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

3. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

4. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

5. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

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