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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 does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?
(a) A secret code.
(b) A new radioactive element.
(c) A way to make radios more efficient.
(d) An anerobic organism that decomposes starch.

2. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(b) Because they want to find better schooling.
(c) Because they want to go to Israel.
(d) Because of family.

3. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) Manchester.
(b) New York.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Budapest.

4. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) David Lloyd George.
(c) J.P. Morgan.
(d) Edmond de Rothchild.

5. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Short Answer Questions

1. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?

2. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

3. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

5. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ends Germany's race to build the atomic bomb?

2. Why is Hiroshima chosen to be the first target for the bomb?

3. How does Bohr's memorandum regarding the nuclear arms race to come and the post nuclear war get to President Roosevelt?

4. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

5. How does the Little Boy, minus uranium target pieces, arrive on Tinian?

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

7. In the mid 1930's, what scientist does Leo Szilard team up with and what is the subject of their experiments?

8. Why is Mor Karman famous?

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

10. What is the "Pale of Settlement"?

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