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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) The uncertainty principle.
(c) Complementarity.
(d) The relativity theory.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

2. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?

3. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

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

5. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Joliot-Curies discovery that contributes to the scientific knowledge about radioactivity?

2. What is a cyclotron, who patents it, and who produces the first working model?

3. What are the three main themes of "The Protocols of he Elders of Zion"?

4. What is the response in the United States to the need of Jewish scientists to leave Germany and Europe?

5. What are the devices known as "windows" that give British bombers an advantage?

6. Where is the center for experimental physics after World War I?

7. What project is code named Mike and where is it designed and tested?

8. What is Chaim Weizmann's discovery that helps the British war effort?

9. What is the German Kristallnacht?

10. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

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