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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. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?
(a) Actinium.
(b) Radon.
(c) Uranium.
(d) Thorium.

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

3. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?
(a) George Rutherford.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Leland Stanford.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

4. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
(a) Write equations.
(b) Read science books.
(c) Recite the periodic table.
(d) Multiply six figure numbers in his head.

5. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Polanyi.
(b) Karman.
(c) Schossberger.
(d) de Hevesy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

3. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

4. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

5. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

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