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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 Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.
(b) A matrix table for elements.
(c) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(d) A refrigerator that does not freeze.

2. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Margrethe.
(b) Susan.
(c) Helga.
(d) Sorena.

3. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Budapest.

4. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) Nuclear chain reaction.
(c) Nuclear power production.
(d) Ionization.

5. Who is Queen Victoria of England's oldest grandson?
(a) Prince Edward.
(b) George III.
(c) Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(d) King Edward VII.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?

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

3. When does the Third Reich promulgate its first anti-Jewish ordinance?

4. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

5. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?

(see the answer key)

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