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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Manchester.

2. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?
(a) An anerobic organism that decomposes starch.
(b) A way to make radios more efficient.
(c) A secret code.
(d) A new radioactive element.

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

4. When does Marie Curie die?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

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

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

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

8. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 48.
(b) 29.
(c) 19.
(d) 1.

9. Who conceives the atomic bomb?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) James Chadwick.

10. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Holland.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Austria.

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

12. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Isador Rabi.

13. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Stockholm.
(b) Paris.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Manchester.

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

15. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

2. Who founds big-machine physics in America?

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

4. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

5. Where is particle acceleration developed?

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