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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?
(a) New York.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Vienna.

3. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?
(a) A new radioactive element.
(b) An anerobic organism that decomposes starch.
(c) A way to make radios more efficient.
(d) A secret code.

4. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Atoms.
(c) Water tension.
(d) Quantam theory.

5. What is the name of Bohr's wife?
(a) Sorena.
(b) Susan.
(c) Helga.
(d) Margrethe.

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

7. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1935.

8. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

9. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1912.

10. In 1939, who does Leo Szilard want to prevent from learning about nuclear fission?
(a) Hungarian physicists.
(b) George Hans.
(c) German physicists.
(d) Lise Meitner.

11. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A financier.
(b) A professor.
(c) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(d) A scientist.

12. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) Kurt Mendelssohn.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

13. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1888.

14. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?
(a) From a student.
(b) From the head of the faculty.
(c) From Leo Szilard.
(d) From the Third Reich.

15. What element does Enrico Fermi and his team begin to experiment with?
(a) Barium.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Radon.
(d) Plutonium.

Short Answer Questions

1. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

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

3. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

4. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

5. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?

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