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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Max von Laue.

2. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1931.

3. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Copenhagen.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cambridge.

4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) December 8, 1931.
(b) April 30, 1932.
(c) January 30, 1933.
(d) December 10, 1932.

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

6. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Karman.
(b) Schossberger.
(c) Polanyi.
(d) de Hevesy.

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

8. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1920.

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

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

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

12. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) James Maxwell.
(c) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(d) Max von Laue.

13. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1949.

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

15. How old is Hitler when he comes to power?
(a) 45.
(b) 33.
(c) 43.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

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

3. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

4. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?

5. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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