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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?
(a) New York.
(b) Newark.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Jersey City.

2. Where was Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

3. When did German forces capture Norway and Denmark during World War II?
(a) May, 1939.
(b) March, 1941.
(c) April, 1940.
(d) July, 1940.

4. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1939.

5. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

6. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 19.
(b) 29.
(c) 32.
(d) 24.

7. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(b) Werner Underground Training Facility.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) MI-5.

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

9. Prior to the development of the atomic bomb, where did the largest man-made explosion in history occur?
(a) Halifax Harbor, Canada.
(b) Augusta Bay, Alaska.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Zurich, Switzerland.

10. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) George Eltenton.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) John Wilson.
(d) Scott Miller.

11. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 20 years of evidence.
(b) 4 years of evidence.
(c) 17 years of evidence.
(d) 12 years of evidence.

12. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Norway.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Hungaria.

13. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

14. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.

15. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

2. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?

3. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?

4. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?

5. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

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