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

2. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Schossberger.
(b) Polanyi.
(c) Karman.
(d) de Hevesy.

3. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?
(a) Neils Bohr.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Princeton Foundation.
(d) Nobel Foundation.

4. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?
(a) Electrons.
(b) The atom.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) The surface tension of water.

5. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From the Third Reich.
(b) From Leo Szilard.
(c) From the head of the faculty.
(d) From a student.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

2. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

3. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

5. What is the subject of the patent Leo Szilard gives to Lewis Strass as a memorial to Strauss' parents?

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