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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. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

2. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
(a) Italy.
(b) Norway.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

3. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) George Eltenton.
(c) Richard Brennan.
(d) Alexander Sachs.

4. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?

2. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?

3. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?

4. Who was Semyon Semyonov's KGB colleague that helped work with him to throw off the scent of the FBI, according to the author in "Rapid Rupture"?

5. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Otto Hahn’s experiment in December of 1938. What was discovered in Hahn’s experiment?

2. What happened when the FBI searched Harry Gold’s room in the Prologue to Bomb?

3. What was the name of the mission Haukelid and Poulsson set out on in February of 1943? How did they go about the mission?

4. How does the author describe surveillance of Communists in the U.S. in “Rapid Rupture”?

5. What led to Harry Gold’s involvement in Soviet espionage? Who solicited Gold to inform for the Soviets?

6. How did Robert Oppenheimer come to learn about Otto Hahn’s work in Germany?

7. What was the situation with the Vemork plant in February of 1943?

8. What were the results of Enrico Fermi’s experiments at the University of Chicago?

9. How are Robert Oppenheimer’s childhood and education described in “Skinny Superhero”?

10. What was the first mission that Haukelid and Poulsson were assigned after training?

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