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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 is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?
(a) The surface tension of water.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Electrons.
(d) The atom.

2. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1922.

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

4. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(d) Yehuda Menuhia.

5. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) "Big Berthas".
(b) Cessnas.
(c) "Gothas".
(d) Bombers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

3. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

4. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?

5. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the discovery of the neutron important?

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

5. President Roosevelt wants policy considerations regarding the making of the atomic bomb limited to the "Top Policy Group". Who is in this group and who is excluded?

6. What is the attitude of German physicists to Albert Einstein around 1919?

7. What are "banzai charges"?

8. What is "Silverplate"?

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

10. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

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