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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
(a) Hahn and Haber.
(b) Hahn and Darwin.
(c) Haber and Meitner.
(d) Darwin and Meitner.

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

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

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

8. 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) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

9. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) Hans Geiger.
(b) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(c) The War Office.
(d) Otto Hahn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

2. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

3. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?

5. What does Max Planck discover?

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