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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. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Experimental physics.
(b) Aeronautical physics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

2. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 30,000.

3. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

4. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1906.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?

2. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

3. Ernest Rutherford moves from New Zealand to where?

4. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Pale of Settlement"?

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

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

4. What happens to the Nobel Prize medals that Max Von Laue and James Franck had given Niels Bohr for safekeeping?

5. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

6. Why is the discovery of the neutron important?

7. What is the Balfour Declaration?

8. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

9. What is Bohr's relationship to the period table?

10. What instrument does Rutherford and Hans Gieger work on together and why?

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