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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?
(a) Radar.
(b) Particle accelerator.
(c) Heavy water.
(d) Cavity magnetron.
2. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) President Truman.
(d) George Marshall.
3. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.
4. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?
(a) Mark Oliphant.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Henry Tizard.
(d) James Conant.
5. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?
(a) Leo Szilard.
(b) Otto Frisch.
(c) Henry Tizard.
(d) Mark Oliphant.
6. Who is Averell Harriman?
(a) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
(b) An Army General in the Pacific.
(c) A physicist.
(d) U.S. representative to the United Nations.
7. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) A British physicist.
(b) A Japanese physicist.
(c) An American nuclear physicist.
(d) A Japanese diplomat.
8. Where is Site X located?
(a) Washington.
(b) California.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Tennessee.
9. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?
(a) February 1945.
(b) October 1944.
(c) December 1944.
(d) June 1944.
10. When do the Germans invade Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?
(a) May, 1940.
(b) June, 1939.
(c) February, 1940.
(d) January, 1939.
11. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Atomic bomb.
(b) Radar.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Sonar.
12. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?
(a) The hydrogen bomb.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) A mass spectrometer.
(d) Radar.
13. When does the U.S. learn that Klaus Fuchs is a Russian spy?
(a) December 1945.
(b) March 1955.
(c) January 1948.
(d) February 1950.
14. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) Lyman Briggs.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(d) James Conant.
15. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?
(a) Los Alamos.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Oak Ridge facility.
(d) Hanford facility.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
2. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
3. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?
4. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?
5. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
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