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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "A Communication from Britain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?
(a) September, 1933.
(b) April, 1933.
(c) January, 1933.
(d) June, 1933.

2. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Manchester.

3. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?
(a) A mass spectrometer.
(b) The hydrogen bomb.
(c) The atomic bomb.
(d) Radar.

4. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are related.
(b) They are visitors from Mars.
(c) They are not all Hungarians.
(d) They are specially trained from birth.

5. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Holland.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Austria.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

2. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?

3. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

4. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

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

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