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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?
(a) Harry Moseley.
(b) Chaim Weizmann.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

2. About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941?
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 100.

3. Who is the author of "Mein Kempf"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Adolphus von Brogan.
(c) The czarist secret police.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

4. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?
(a) Xylyl bromide.
(b) Dichlormethylether.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Nerve gas.

5. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) A.E. Houseman.
(b) William Beveridge.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Edward Teller.

6. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?
(a) Paris.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Berlin.

7. Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Copenhagen.

8. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

9. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?
(a) University of Manchester.
(b) Marie Curie's Radium Institute.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cavendish Laboratory.

10. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1908.

11. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Albert Teller.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Max Planck.

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

13. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) John Karman.
(b) George de Hevesy.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

14. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?
(a) $16,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $6,000.

15. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

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

3. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

4. What does Leo Szilard want to use as the moderator in the nuclear chain reaction?

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

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