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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1944.

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

6. What is the subject of the patent Leo Szilard gives to Lewis Strass as a memorial to Strauss' parents?
(a) Solar energy.
(b) Refrigeration.
(c) Production of radioactive cobalt.
(d) Nucelar chain reaction.

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

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

9. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1918.

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

11. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Dichlormethylether.
(b) Nerve gas.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Xylyl bromide.

12. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?
(a) April, 1933.
(b) September, 1933.
(c) June, 1933.
(d) January, 1933.

13. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Anna.
(c) Rho.
(d) Maria.

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

15. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) Fyodor Vinbert.
(b) James Maxwell.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Max Planck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max Planck discover?

2. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?

3. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

4. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

5. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?

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