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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "Physics in Desert Country".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?
(a) Russians.
(b) British.
(c) Americans.
(d) French.

2. Who conceives the atomic bomb?
(a) James Chadwick.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

3. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Gustav Stolper.
(d) Alexander Sachs.

4. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Greta.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Elsa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is particle acceleration developed?

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

3. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

4. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

5. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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