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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Exodus".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 related.
(d) They are specially trained from birth.

2. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1877.

3. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1919.

4. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

5. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) A.E. Houseman.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) William Beveridge.
(d) Edward Teller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

3. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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