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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 does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?
(a) Splitting.
(b) Fission.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Bombardment.

2. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Copenhagen.

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

4. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?
(a) Lisa Meitner.
(b) T.A. Chalmers.
(c) Patrick Blacket.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

5. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Crystallography.
(b) Gas.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Radioactivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

2. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?

3. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?

4. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?

5. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bohr's relationship to the period table?

2. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?

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

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

5. Where is the center for experimental physics after World War I?

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

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

8. How does Bohr's memorandum regarding the nuclear arms race to come and the post nuclear war get to President Roosevelt?

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

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

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