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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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 reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Mor Karman.
(b) Von Neumann.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) Michael Polanyi.

2. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

3. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?
(a) He writes a book.
(b) He discovers uranium.
(c) He is a child prodigy violinist.
(d) He is a child prodigy mathematician.

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

5. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
(a) X-ray.
(b) Accelerator tube.
(c) Cloud chamber.
(d) Bubble chamber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

2. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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

4. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

5. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three main themes of "The Protocols of he Elders of Zion"?

2. What is J.J. Thompson's contribution to physics?

3. How does Bohr's memorandum regarding the nuclear arms race to come and the post nuclear war get to President Roosevelt?

4. Why do the Jewish Hungarian scientists leave Hungary?

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

6. What is the difference between the atomic model of classical physics and Rutherford's model?

7. What is the German Kristallnacht?

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

9. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

10. What is a cyclotron, who patents it, and who produces the first working model?

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