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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his time playing for the Boston Red Sox, Moe Berg averaged fewer than how many games per season?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

2. In late 1944/early 1945, Moe Berg began reporting to the OSS office in Bern lead by whom?
(a) H.P. Robertson.
(b) Tony Calvert.
(c) Carl Eifler.
(d) Allen Dulles.

3. What was a unique variety of fascism that incorporated biological racism and antisemitism during WWII?
(a) Dudeism.
(b) Nazism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitolism.

4. What manager of the Red Sox asked Moe Berg to become a coach for the team?
(a) Joe Cronin.
(b) Aldo Icardi.
(c) John Kieran.
(d) Lefty O'Doul.

5. After his guest stint on a radio quiz show, who told Moe Berg, "Berg, in just thirty minutes you did more for baseball than I've done the entire time I've been commissioner"?
(a) Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
(b) William Eckert.
(c) Ford Frick.
(d) A. B. "Happy" Chandler, Sr.

6. Who was the wartime head of the OSS?
(a) Ted Lyons.
(b) Harry Broley.
(c) William Joseph Donovan.
(d) Robert Furman.

7. When did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?
(a) September 11, 1939.
(b) July 4, 1937.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) October 31, 1945.

8. When the OSS was formed, it was styled after what intelligence operation in England?
(a) SB-1.
(b) HR-3.
(c) IP-5.
(d) MI-6.

9. What fellow OSS agent and friend did Moe Berg visit in Oklahoma in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) Joe Cronin.
(b) Herb Hunter.
(c) Tony Calvert.
(d) Robert Furman.

10. Edoardo Amaldi told Moe Berg that the Germans were how far from perfecting the science of the atomic bomb?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 245 days.
(d) 10 weeks.

11. When was Ted Williams born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1900.

12. What consultant for the Arthur D. Little Company did Moe Berg meet in Boston in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) Joseph Grew.
(b) Charles Owen.
(c) Roy Spencer.
(d) Harry Broley.

13. When Moe Berg joined the OIAA he left behind a baseball career that had lasted how many years?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

14. During what years was Nelson Rockefeller U.S. Vice President?
(a) 1974-1977.
(b) 1969-1972.
(c) 1972-1974.
(d) 1977-1979.

15. Ted Williams played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as what position for the Red Sox?
(a) 1st baseman.
(b) Center fielder.
(c) 3rd baseman.
(d) Left fielder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In New York, Moe enjoyed a friendship with what aeronautical engineer he met through Ferris in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?

2. In Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy," Moe made his way to England aboard what?

3. In Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar," Moe Berg became a regular at Princeton, arriving at the home of what old friend the night of the game and gaining an invitation to dinner and a place to stay for the night?

4. Who was the only woman Moe ever had a successful relationship with?

5. What did the OSS become after its dissolution in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?

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