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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 Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(b) A matrix table for elements.
(c) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.
(d) A refrigerator that does not freeze.

2. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?
(a) Julian Carian.
(b) Maria Karenina.
(c) Anna Toble.
(d) Laura Capon.

3. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) German nobility.
(b) Government bureaucracy.
(c) Other European commercial groups.
(d) Old Hungarian nobility.

4. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Max von Laue.

5. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) John Karman.
(b) George de Hevesy.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?

2. Who designs the first working cyclotron?

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

4. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

5. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who suggests the existence of the neutron and who works with him to prove it?

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

5. What is nuclear physics?

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

7. How does the first direct contact between nuclear physicists and the U.S. government occur?

8. 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?

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

10. Why is Mor Karman famous?

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