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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?
(a) Fission.
(b) Splitting.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Bombardment.

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

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

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

6. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the cyclotron.
(b) The discovery of the proton.
(c) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(d) The discovery of the neutron.

7. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?
(a) Prince Edward.
(b) King Edward VII.
(c) George III.
(d) Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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

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

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

11. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) George de Hevesy.

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

13. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?
(a) Uranium.
(b) Actinium.
(c) Thorium.
(d) Radon.

14. In the 1930's, where do Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman work when they are trying to sort out the elements created by neutron bombardment of the heaviest elements?
(a) Univeristy of Franfurt.
(b) Univeristy of Berlin.
(c) Kaiser Wilheim Institute.
(d) Tubingen University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

2. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

3. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?

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

5. When does Marie Curie die?

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