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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?
(a) Neutron bombardment.
(b) Relativity.
(c) Ionization.
(d) Beta decay.

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

3. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Budapest.

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

5. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) Bombers.
(b) "Big Berthas".
(c) Cessnas.
(d) "Gothas".

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

7. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Patrick Blacket.
(c) Lisa Meitner.
(d) T.A. Chalmers.

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

9. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) The relativity theory.
(b) Complementarity.
(c) The uncertainty principle.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

10. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1944.

11. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Kant.
(c) Heidegger.
(d) Rousseau.

12. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1902.

13. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) James Chadwick.
(c) Rolf Wideroe.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

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

15. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Copenhagen.
(b) University of Berlin.
(c) University of Manchester.
(d) University of Edinburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

2. Who designs the first working cyclotron?

3. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?

4. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

5. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?

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