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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Buses.
(c) Trains.
(d) Subway.

2. In the 1930's, where do Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman work when they are trying to sort out the elements created by neutron bombardment of the heaviest elements?
(a) Univeristy of Franfurt.
(b) Tubingen University.
(c) Univeristy of Berlin.
(d) Kaiser Wilheim Institute.

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

4. A part of what country does Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree should be ceded to Germany?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Holland.
(d) Poland.

5. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?
(a) J.P. Morgan.
(b) Edmond de Rothchild.
(c) David Lloyd George.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?

2. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

3. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?

4. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?

5. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?

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