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

2. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?
(a) Ionization.
(b) The nuclear chain reaction.
(c) Relativity.
(d) The structure of the proton.

3. When does World War II begin?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1939.

4. How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 100 feet.

5. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Isador Rabi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Leo Szilard ask the Uranium Committee for?

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

3. In the early 1900s, Budapest is the first European city to have what mode of transportation?

4. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

5. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

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

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

4. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?

5. In the mid 1930's, what scientist does Leo Szilard team up with and what is the subject of their experiments?

6. In working on the problems with Rutherford's model of the atom, Bohr uses the works of two other scientists. Who are these two scientists?

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

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. Why do the Jewish Hungarian scientists leave Hungary?

10. What is the MAUD committee?

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