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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. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Trains.
(c) Subway.
(d) Buses.

3. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Aeronautical physics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Experimental physics.

4. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Atoms.
(b) Water tension.
(c) Atomic bomb.
(d) Quantam theory.

5. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Neutrons.
(c) Photons.
(d) Protons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?

2. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

3. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?

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

5. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

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

4. Who are referred to as the "Men from Mars" in the title of Chapter Five and why? You do not have to name them.

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

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

7. What is Albert Einstein's role in the initial contact between the nuclear scientists and President Roosevelt?

8. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?

9. What is the Manhattan Project?

10. What is Chaim Weizmann's discovery that helps the British war effort?

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