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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 destruction of Arians.
(d) The founding of a Jewish homeland.

2. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) The existence of protons.
(b) His retirement.
(c) The plans for an atomic bomb.
(d) A neutron can split uranium.

3. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Fyodor Vinbert.

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are not all Hungarians.
(b) They are related.
(c) They are specially trained from birth.
(d) They are visitors from Mars.

5. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cambridge.

6. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1930.

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

8. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

9. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Refrigeration.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) General physics.

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

11. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1913.

12. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) A universal constant.
(b) The neutron.
(c) The atom.
(d) Home refrigeration theory.

13. What religion is Enrico Fermi?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Jewish.

14. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Atoms.
(c) Quantam theory.
(d) Water tension.

15. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

2. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

3. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?

4. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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