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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. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?
(a) December 11, 1910.
(b) April 22, 1904.
(c) November 1, 1914.
(d) May 22, 1908.
2. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) September, 1933.
(b) July, 1941.
(c) February, 1934.
(d) March, 1932.
3. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Polio.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Asthma.
4. Who informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?
(a) General Brehon Somervell.
(b) General Richard Brennan.
(c) General Scott Miller.
(d) General Lewis Strauss.
5. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
(a) Austria.
(b) Norway.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
2. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
3. Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agree to combine their resources and work on atomic weapons in the United States?
4. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?
5. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Lise Meitner and what role did she play in the discovery of nuclear fission?
2. What led to Harry Gold’s involvement in Soviet espionage? Who solicited Gold to inform for the Soviets?
3. Describe Otto Hahn’s experiment in December of 1938. What was discovered in Hahn’s experiment?
4. How are Robert Oppenheimer’s childhood and education described in “Skinny Superhero”?
5. How did Robert Oppenheimer come to learn about Otto Hahn’s work in Germany?
6. What was the name of the mission Haukelid and Poulsson set out on in February of 1943? How did they go about the mission?
7. Who was chosen to be the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project in 1942? What reservations were expressed regarding this individual?
8. How is Robert Oppenheimer characterized as a professor in “Skinny Superhero”?
9. How does the author describe surveillance of Communists in the U.S. in “Rapid Rupture”?
10. What led to Franklin Roosevelt’s discovery of German atomic research? Who wrote to the President and what was suggested?
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