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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. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Andrew Lawrence.
(c) George Pegram.
(d) Vannevar Bush.

2. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Albert Teller.
(d) Max Planck.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

3. Who is Alexander Sachs?

4. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?

5. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Balfour Declaration?

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

5. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

6. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

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

8. What is General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs?

9. What instrument does Rutherford and Hans Gieger work on together and why?

10. Why is the discovery of the neutron important?

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