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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. Who provides Lise Meitner a grant to continue experimenting?
(a) Princeton Foundation.
(b) Neils Bohr.
(c) Lewis Strauss.
(d) Nobel Foundation.

2. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Fyodor Vinbert.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) James Maxwell.

3. How many of the 20th century's most exceptional scientists, who go on to become involved in the atomic bomb, are produced by the Hungarian Jewish middle class?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

4. Who is Alexander Sachs?
(a) A personal friend of Roosevelt.
(b) A financier.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A professor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?

2. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

3. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

4. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?

5. In the early 1900's, who do the Jewish commercial elite ally with, creating a large class of ennobled Jews?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

4. Who is Fritz Haber and how does his wife die?

5. Why is Mor Karman famous?

6. What city does General Groves remove from the target list for the atomic bomb and why?

7. Why is Hiroshima chosen to be the first target for the bomb?

8. What ends Germany's race to build the atomic bomb?

9. What is the Balfour Declaration?

10. What is the German Kristallnacht?

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