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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(b) Because they want to go to Israel.
(c) Because they want to find better schooling.
(d) Because of family.

2. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

3. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Chaim Weizmann.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

4. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Chaim Weizmann.
(d) Theodor von Penski.

5. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1866.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?

2. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

3. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

4. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

5. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?

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