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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Machines".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Paris.

3. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) Rolf Wideroe.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) James Chadwick.

4. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Marie and Pierre Curie.

5. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

2. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

3. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?

4. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?

5. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

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