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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1930.

2. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Patrick Blacket.
(c) T.A. Chalmers.
(d) Lisa Meitner.

3. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Kant.
(b) Heidegger.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Rousseau.

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

5. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?

2. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?

3. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

4. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

5. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

(see the answer key)

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