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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. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
(a) The atom.
(b) The neutron.
(c) The proton.
(d) The electron.

2. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) The relativity theory.
(b) Complementarity.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The uncertainty principle.

3. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Budapest.

4. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) General physics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Nuclear physics.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

3. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

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

5. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

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