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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. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Paris.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Stockholm.

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

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

4. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

5. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) The czarist secret police.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Adolphus von Brogan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

2. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

3. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Rutherford's atom a merely theoretical construct?

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

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

4. How does President Roosevelt authenticate his decision to expedite the research of the atomic bomb?

5. Why is the discovery of the neutron important?

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

7. In 1939-1940, what does Robert Oppenheimer do that makes Robert Oppenheimer a true genius in the eyes of the author?

8. What is the MAUD committee?

9. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?

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

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