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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?
(a) Other European commercial groups.
(b) Old Hungarian nobility.
(c) Government bureaucracy.
(d) German nobility.

2. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?
(a) Protons.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Photons.

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1888.

4. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
(a) The atom.
(b) The proton.
(c) The electron.
(d) The neutron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

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

3. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?

4. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?

5. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?

(see the answer key)

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