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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?

2. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?

3. Where did Harry Truman meet Joseph Stalin for the first time?

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

5. What did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict arose regarding Jean Tatlock between Groves and the Army CIC?

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

3. Why was Colonel Paul Tibbets ordered to report to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1944?

4. How did the United States government respond to questions regarding the blast from the Trinity Test?

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

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

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

8. How were the water barrels being transported from the Vemork plant in February of 1944? What was Haukelid’s mission?

9. What did Oppenheimer expect to happen to the Manhattan Project after Germany’s surrender? Was he correct?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the differences between uranium and plutonium weapons. What are the different types of weapons styles that were used in Fat Man and Little Boy? Why were these styles different based on their use of plutonium or uranium?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Theodore Hall and his involvement with the Manhattan Project. How did Hall become involved with Soviet espionage? What information did Hall leak to the Soviets? What became of Hall after the war?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the development at Los Alamos. How many scientists resided at the compound that was built there? What resources were available for their research? Why was this location selected?

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