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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1919.

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

4. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?
(a) His retirement.
(b) A neutron can split uranium.
(c) The existence of protons.
(d) The plans for an atomic bomb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?

2. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

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

4. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

5. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Rutherford's atom a merely theoretical construct?

2. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

3. What is the character of Budapest in the early 1900's?

4. What is the Manhattan Project?

5. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?

6. When Szilard enrolls in the University of Berlin, the physics faculty includes three Nobel Laureates in physics. Who are two of these three and what is one scientific discovery they are famous for?

7. What is the Joliot-Curies discovery that contributes to the scientific knowledge about radioactivity?

8. Who are referred to as the "Men from Mars" in the title of Chapter Five and why? You do not have to name them.

9. What are the devices known as "windows" that give British bombers an advantage?

10. What project is code named Mike and where is it designed and tested?

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