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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what type of network were plans made?
(a) Radio.
(b) Escape.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Resistance.

2. Who traveled to London to meet with the King?
(a) Truman.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Joseph Kennedy.
(d) Bill Donovan.

3. In what country was Chamberlain most interested?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) The United States.

4. For what did the Brits trade some of their technology and secrets?
(a) Money.
(b) Arms and munitions.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Food.

5. What was canceled due to the protests of the royalty of various countries?
(a) ORE GONE.
(b) OX BLOW.
(c) HAMMER BLOW.
(d) STRIKE OX.

6. Why was flying to England monthly dangerous for Stevenson?
(a) He has high blood pressure.
(b) There was a price on his head by the Nazis.
(c) The planes were being built as quickly as possible and were not very reliable mechanically.
(d) Many planes were being shot down.

7. What did Stevenson investigate about an aspect of the Phony War?
(a) How quickly communications could happen.
(b) How the German Ambassador intercepts communication between Churchill and Roosevelt.
(c) Why the codes were being broken.
(d) Why new codes were harder to devise than old codes broken.

8. Who was William Wiseman?
(a) The chief of British Secret Intelligence Service in Washington, D. C.
(b) The head of the CIA's covert operations branch in the 1950s.
(c) Stevenson's best friend.
(d) A spy for Britian in France during WWII.

9. Who were the "trappers"?
(a) Men and women sent undercover.
(b) The women who secretly opened letters and found the microdots.
(c) Boats sent out specifically to trap German subs.
(d) Airplanes sent to trap German destroyers.

10. What shook Britain from its complacency?
(a) Germany's invasion of Norway.
(b) Russia's invasion of Norway.
(c) The destruction of the heavy water facility.
(d) Germany's invasion of Portugal.

11. Where did Noor Inayat Kahn die?
(a) A concentration camp.
(b) In a prison camp in France.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In London.

12. What did the British capture just before the invasion of Poland by Germany?
(a) A book of codes from WWI which were made more complex.
(b) One of Germany's top intelligence officers.
(c) A list of German spies in England.
(d) An Enigma machine.

13. What was Stevenson's cover occupation?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Ambulance driver.
(d) Passport control officer.

14. What was Donovan investigating?
(a) The value of strengthening the British in the Mediterranean.
(b) The locations of Hitler's secret bunkers.
(c) The locations of German munitions factories.
(d) Another leak in security.

15. What were the Americans doing in the field of codes?
(a) Working on a unbreakable code.
(b) Trying to break Japanese code.
(c) Trying to teach the Navajo codes.
(d) Changing the nature of ciphers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what group were the woman part of in training at Camp X?

2. How did Donovan delay Hitler's invasion?

3. What did Roosevelt promise the King and Queen of England?

4. Where did the BSC or British Security Coordination establish its headquarters?

5. What book did Hitler write in the early 1920s?

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