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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. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1944.

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

3. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Crystallography.
(b) Radioactivity.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Gas.

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

5. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?

2. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?

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

4. What is Alsos?

5. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

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