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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Berlin.
(b) University of Edinburgh.
(c) University of Copenhagen.
(d) University of Manchester.

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

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

6. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) Bombers.
(b) Cessnas.
(c) "Big Berthas".
(d) "Gothas".

7. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?
(a) Edward Teller.
(b) J.J. Thompson.
(c) John von Neumann.
(d) Hans Gieger.

8. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

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

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

11. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Albert Teller.
(d) Max Planck.

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

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

14. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Enrico Fermi and his team carry out his experiments?

2. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?

3. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?

4. Where is particle acceleration developed?

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

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