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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 designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Rutherford.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Chadwick.
(d) Lawrence.

2. When does Marie Curie die?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1930.

3. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1919.

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

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) Ionization.
(c) Nuclear chain reaction.
(d) Nuclear power production.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

2. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

3. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?

4. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?

5. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the German Kristallnacht?

3. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

4. What two scientists come to Berkeley in 1928-1929 and what do they develop?

5. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

6. Why does Lise Meitner leave Austria and go to Copenhagen?

7. Who produces the first controlled nuclear fission reaction and where and when does it take place?

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

9. What is Trinity, who selects the name and why?

10. Who is Fritz Haber and how does his wife die?

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