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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 did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?
(a) Milk.
(b) Sulphuric acid.
(c) Honey.
(d) Coffee.

2. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?
(a) February, 1944.
(b) March, 1943.
(c) July, 1944.
(d) September, 1944.

3. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 80,000.

4. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?
(a) The 219th Composite Group.
(b) The 109th Composite Group.
(c) The 509th Composite Group.
(d) The 49th Air Brigade.

5. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash and General George Marshall.
(b) Major Robert Furman and Captain James Nolan.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer and Arne Kjelstrup.
(d) General Brehon Somervell and Colonel John Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?

2. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?

3. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

4. Where was Paul Tibbets ordered to go to meet with Air Force General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?

5. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Theodore Hall? How did Hall become involved in the Manhattan Project?

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

6. How are the results of the Trinity Test described in the narrative?

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

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

9. How did the Alsos mission evolve after Nazi Germany’s surrender?

10. Where were the German scientists taken after the end of World War II in Europe?

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