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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. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?
(a) University of Copenhagan.
(b) University of Denmark.
(c) Edinburgh Laboratory.
(d) Cavendish Laboratory.

2. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Subway.
(c) Buses.
(d) Trains.

3. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

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

5. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?
(a) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

2. Who designs the first working cyclotron?

3. How old is Hitler when he comes to power?

4. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?

5. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?

2. Is Rutherford's atom a merely theoretical construct?

3. What is the German Kristallnacht?

4. Why is Mor Karman famous?

5. After the dropping of the bomb, who are the members of the Interim Committee Scientific Panel and what do they advocate? Are they successful?

6. What is Oppenheimer's "Los Alamos Primer"?

7. What are "banzai charges"?

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

9. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?

10. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

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