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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Men from Mars".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Niels Bohr.

2. 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?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

3. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

4. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Budapest.

5. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The founding of a Jewish homeland.
(b) The destruction of the Jews.
(c) The destruction of Arians.
(d) The earlier education of child prodigies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

2. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

3. Who discovers X-rays?

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

5. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

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