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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. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(b) Hans Geiger.
(c) The War Office.
(d) Otto Hahn.

2. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?
(a) Anna Toble.
(b) Maria Karenina.
(c) Laura Capon.
(d) Julian Carian.

3. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1930.

4. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Los Alamos.

5. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Aeronautical physics.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Experimental physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?

2. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?

3. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

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

5. When does Marie Curie die?

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