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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A financier.
(b) A professor.
(c) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(d) A scientist.

4. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
(a) Cloud chamber.
(b) Accelerator tube.
(c) Bubble chamber.
(d) X-ray.

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

6. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From the head of the faculty.
(b) From a student.
(c) From the Third Reich.
(d) From Leo Szilard.

7. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?
(a) Chaim Weizmann.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Theodor von Penski.
(d) George de Hevesy.

8. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1908.

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

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

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

12. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(b) The destruction of Arians.
(c) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(d) The destruction of the Jews.

13. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?
(a) Hans Gieger.
(b) Edward Teller.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) Niels Bohr.

14. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?
(a) George Rutherford.
(b) Leland Stanford.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?

2. What religion is Enrico Fermi?

3. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

4. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

5. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

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