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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. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Air.
(c) Heavy water.
(d) Water.
2. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1917.
3. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cambridge.
4. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?
(a) Kurt Mendelssohn.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.
5. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1933.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
2. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
3. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
4. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
5. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
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