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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "Revelations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) Eastman Kodak.
(b) DuPont.
(c) IBM.
(d) Boeing.

2. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?
(a) The discovery of the proton.
(b) The design of the spiral particle accelerator.
(c) The design of the cyclotron.
(d) The discovery of the neutron.

3. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?
(a) Lou Geirigh.
(b) Hans Geiger.
(c) Edward Wigner.
(d) Otto Reichart.

4. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?
(a) Because they want to find better schooling.
(b) Because of increasingly violent anti-Semitism.
(c) Because of family.
(d) Because they want to go to Israel.

5. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"
(a) Chadwick.
(b) Bohr.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Groves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

2. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

3. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?

4. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

5. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

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