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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1902.

3. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?
(a) Maria.
(b) Anna.
(c) Victoria.
(d) Rho.

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

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

6. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Paris.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Stockholm.

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

8. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1919.

9. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?
(a) Fusion.
(b) Splitting.
(c) Bombardment.
(d) Fission.

10. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?
(a) Nuclear physics.
(b) Experimental physics.
(c) Relativity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

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

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

13. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Cambridge.

14. What is Einstein's second wife's name?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Greta.
(c) Elsa.
(d) Hannah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?

2. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

3. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?

4. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?

5. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

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