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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 gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Chlorine.
(b) Nerve gas.
(c) Dichlormethylether.
(d) Xylyl bromide.

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

3. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Refrigeration.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) General physics.

4. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The design of the cyclotron.
(b) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(c) The discovery of the neutron.
(d) The discovery of the proton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

2. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

3. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

4. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

5. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the difference between the atomic model of classical physics and Rutherford's model?

3. What is the Manhattan Project?

4. What is the position of Wigler and Szilard with respect to sharing information with the Germans?

5. When Szilard enrolls in the University of Berlin, the physics faculty includes three Nobel Laureates in physics. Who are two of these three and what is one scientific discovery they are famous for?

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

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

8. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

9. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

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

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