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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory or principle does Albert Einstein not accept?
(a) The uncertainty principle.
(b) The relativity theory.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Complementarity.

2. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?
(a) Cessnas.
(b) Bombers.
(c) "Gothas".
(d) "Big Berthas".

3. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Cambridge.

4. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1901.

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) General physics.
(d) Refrigeration.

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

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

8. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Gustav Stolper.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

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

11. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?
(a) Haber and Meitner.
(b) Darwin and Meitner.
(c) Hahn and Haber.
(d) Hahn and Darwin.

12. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?
(a) He discovers uranium.
(b) He writes a book.
(c) He is a child prodigy mathematician.
(d) He is a child prodigy violinist.

13. What religion is Enrico Fermi?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Jewish.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does World War II begin?

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

3. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

4. Who gets Enrico Fermi a meeting with Admiral Hooper, the Undersecretary of the Navy?

5. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

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