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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

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

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

4. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

Short Essay Questions

1. President Roosevelt wants policy considerations regarding the making of the atomic bomb limited to the "Top Policy Group". Who is in this group and who is excluded?

2. What is the response in the United States to the need of Jewish scientists to leave Germany and Europe?

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

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

5. What is J.J. Thompson's contribution to physics?

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

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

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

9. In working on the problems with Rutherford's model of the atom, Bohr uses the works of two other scientists. Who are these two scientists?

10. After the dropping of the bomb, who are the members of the Interim Committee Scientific Panel and what do they advocate? Are they successful?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the first part of the book, the author discusses the biographical background and scientific accomplishments of many international scientists. Choose three scientists from the following list. Give a brief biographical sketch of the scientist, including his nationality and where he makes the discovery. Then identify what his/her scientific accomplishment is and what its importance is to the making of the atom bomb. Becquerel & the Curies; J. J. Thomson; Planck; Einstein; Rutherford; Bohr; Moseley; Meitner & Chadwick; Heisenberg & Schrödinger; and Chadwick

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Trinity and Silverplate. What are they? What is their role in the dropping of the atomic bombs? Who are the people involved?

Essay Topic 3

The United States is developing two types of atomic bombs. Compare and contrast these bombs. What are their code names?

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