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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Rolf Wideroe.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) James Chadwick.

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

4. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Cambridge.

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

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

7. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Experimental physics.

8. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
(a) X-ray.
(b) Accelerator tube.
(c) Cloud chamber.
(d) Bubble chamber.

9. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Eugene Wigner.
(b) Mor Karman.
(c) Michael Polanyi.
(d) Von Neumann.

10. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?
(a) The surface tension of water.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) The atom.
(d) Electrons.

11. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Kurt Mendelssohn.

12. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) Gustav Stolper.

13. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

14. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(c) A financier.
(d) A professor.

15. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?
(a) Ionization.
(b) The nuclear chain reaction.
(c) Relativity.
(d) The structure of the proton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

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

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

4. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

5. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?

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