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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?
(a) Relativity.
(b) The nuclear chain reaction.
(c) The structure of the proton.
(d) Ionization.

3. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1939.

4. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?
(a) King Edward VII.
(b) Prince Edward.
(c) Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(d) George III.

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

6. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?
(a) Rho.
(b) Anna.
(c) Victoria.
(d) Maria.

7. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?
(a) Kurt Mendelssohn.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

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

9. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1915.

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

11. Who designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Chadwick.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

2. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

3. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?

4. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

5. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

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