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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reaction Begins" – "Epilogue".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel Robert Serber.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) Lt. Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.

2. Who was Stalin's head of secret police in late 1944?
(a) Lavrenti Beria.
(b) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup.

3. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) San Diego, California.
(c) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(d) New York, New York.

4. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?
(a) 33.
(b) 35.
(c) 51.
(d) 40.

5. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Cinder.
(c) Ella.
(d) Chico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ted Hall's lab partner at Los Alamos?

2. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

3. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?

4. Where did Ted Hall work after leaving the U.S. in 1962?

5. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?

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