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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "The Evils of This Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) Adolphus von Brogan.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) The czarist secret police.

2. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?
(a) The anticipated hydrogen bomb.
(b) The new cyclotron.
(c) The megatron accelerator.
(d) The anticipated atomic bomb.

3. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Alexander Sachs.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Gustav Stolper.

4. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) James Maxwell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?

2. When do the Germans surrender at Stalingrad?

3. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?

4. What is Alsos?

5. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

(see the answer key)

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