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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. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Harry Moseley.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

2. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1913.

3. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Buses.
(b) Subway.
(c) Trains.
(d) Airplanes.

4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) April 30, 1932.
(b) January 30, 1933.
(c) December 10, 1932.
(d) December 8, 1931.

5. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) A universal constant.
(b) The neutron.
(c) Home refrigeration theory.
(d) The atom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

2. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

3. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

4. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

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