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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Germans communicate with their vessels?
(a) Radio via the Enigma.
(b) Semaphore.
(c) Documents written in invisible ink.
(d) Secret meetings on uninhabited islands.

2. What was developed in 1924?
(a) The Mystery.
(b) The Maze.
(c) A new type of Codebreaker.
(d) The Enigma.

3. Where did Ian Fleming train?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Manitoba.
(c) Camp X.
(d) Camp A.

4. What sendt Hitler into a rage that results in the heavy bombing of Belgrade?
(a) The refusal of Portugal to come into the war on the side of the Nazis.
(b) A direct hit one of Dresden's most productive factories.
(c) Three German U-boats sunk in one day by the United States.
(d) A press conference by Donovan.

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

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

7. Where was an intelligence leak found?
(a) By a clerk in the British intelligence.
(b) Through an admiral in the Russian navy.
(c) By a clerk in the US Embassy.
(d) Through one of the cousins of Tsar Nicholas II.

8. Why weren't warnings given to some British cities of imminent German attack?
(a) It would give away the knowledge that the Brits had broken the German codes.
(b) To confuse the Germans.
(c) To get the Brits incensed against the Germans.
(d) They did warn them.

9. What could Stevenson see as he inspected German factories?
(a) The Germans were obeying the terms of the treaty from WWI.
(b) The Germans were hiding weapons production.
(c) The Germans were using what was basically slave labor.
(d) The Germans had advanced mechanical technology.

10. What did Roosevelt promise the King and Queen of England?
(a) Guns and airplanes.
(b) Assistance if England was attacked.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Financial aide.

11. How long did the bombing of Belgrade delay Hitler's invasion of Russia?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 6 weeks.

12. What did Stevenson specialize in at Oxford?
(a) Electronics.
(b) Radio communications.
(c) Veterinary medicine.
(d) Philosophy.

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

14. What did the United States government say publicly about the war?
(a) They deplored the war.
(b) They believed the British cannot win the war.
(c) They believed the British should have made peace with Germany.
(d) They did not intend to enter the war.

15. What concession did Stevenson gain from the United States?
(a) That the United States would send several shiploads of supplies daily to England.
(b) Stevenson got none of the concessions that he wanted.
(c) That Germany would be the focal point of the United States' war effort.
(d) That the United States would begin training many more covert operators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

2. What did Stevenson's London office serve as?

3. What did Stevenson want to use in breaking codes?

4. What did ships from the United States to Lisbon receive when they stopped in Bermuda?

5. Where was Hitler in the early 1920s?

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