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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 physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Samuel Goudsmit.
(b) Robert Serber.
(c) Jens Poulsson.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

2. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?
(a) December 18, 1944.
(b) June 19, 1944.
(c) February 21, 1945.
(d) October 8, 1943.

3. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?
(a) The A-36 Apache.
(b) The Hawker Demon.
(c) The Grumman Goblin.
(d) The B-29 bomber.

4. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 300.
(b) 1 out of 130.
(c) 1 out of 50.
(d) 1 out of 10.

5. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) Laboratory Number 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?

2. On what date was the first meeting of the physicists at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

3. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

4. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

5. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Richard Feynman’s mission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee?

2. What preparations were made prior to the testing of the first nuclear weapon?

3. Who was Dorothy McKibben? How did she gain employment on the Manhattan Project?

4. Who was William Laurence? Why was he in attendance at the Trinity Test?

5. How did the residents in the surrounding areas of Los Alamos react to the project there when it began?

6. What efforts were made to thwart rumors about the Los Alamos site?

7. What information was passed to the KGB via Ted Hall and Saville Sax in December of 1944?

8. What questions did Harry Truman pose regarding the Manhattan Project in 1945?

9. With whom was Carl Eifler replaced in the mission regarding Heisenberg? Why was he replaced?

10. How and why did the plot to kidnap Werner Heisenberg arise?

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