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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. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) German nobility.
(b) Other European commercial groups.
(c) Government bureaucracy.
(d) Old Hungarian nobility.

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

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

4. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Greta.
(c) Miriam.
(d) Elsa.

5. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

2. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

3. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is nuclear physics?

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

3. In 1939-1940, what does Robert Oppenheimer do that makes Robert Oppenheimer a true genius in the eyes of the author?

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

5. What is the German Kristallnacht?

6. Who suggests the existence of the neutron and who works with him to prove it?

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

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

9. Who are referred to as the "Men from Mars" in the title of Chapter Five and why? You do not have to name them.

10. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

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