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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Kant.
(d) Heidegger.

2. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Richard Rhodes.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) H.G.Wells.

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

4. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?
(a) Read science books.
(b) Write equations.
(c) Recite the periodic table.
(d) Multiply six figure numbers in his head.

5. When does Marie Curie die?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

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

7. Who discovers that radium gives off a radioactive gas?
(a) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

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

9. What does "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" advocate?
(a) The earlier education of child prodigies.
(b) The destruction of Arians.
(c) The destruction of the Jews.
(d) The founding of a Jewish homeland.

10. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?
(a) 29.
(b) 1.
(c) 19.
(d) 48.

11. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) James Maxwell.
(b) Max von Laue.
(c) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

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

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

14. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Gas.
(b) Radioactivity.
(c) Crystallography.
(d) Atoms.

15. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Max von Laue.
(d) Leo Szilard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?

2. Bohr sets out the order of elements on the periodic table based on what part of the atom?

3. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

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

5. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

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