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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Colin Gubbins?
(a) A Canadian who cracked the Enigma machine.
(b) A close advisor of King George V.
(c) The head of the Baker Street Irregulars.
(d) The Polish labor leader.

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

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

4. Where did the BSC or British Security Coordination establish its headquarters?
(a) London.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) New York City.
(d) Toronto.

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

6. Of what group were the woman part of in training at Camp X?
(a) CANWAC.
(b) WACLE.
(c) FANY.
(d) STAR.

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

8. What allowed engineers to view the German communication network?
(a) A spy in German intelligence.
(b) Espionage into the main office of German intelligence.
(c) A new atenna that picked up coded signals.
(d) A business deal between ITT and Germany.

9. What was Hitler's invasion of Russia code named?
(a) Czargone.
(b) Barbarossa.
(c) Operation Snow.
(d) White Christmas.

10. What was already in place when Hitler took the Channel Islands?
(a) The British organization for guerrilla warfare against the Germans was already in place.
(b) The mine fields in the channel.
(c) The netword of Island resistance.
(d) The Royal Navy underwater demolition teams.

11. What was a serious problem for British shipping?
(a) Lack of qualified sea captains.
(b) Age of equipment.
(c) Finances.
(d) German U-boats.

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

13. Why did the Roosevelt administration keep Joseph Kennedy in London for as long as possible?
(a) To keep him from campaigning against Roosevelt.
(b) To encourage the British people that Americans would help them.
(c) To help the British intelligence.
(d) There were no ships available to evacuate him and other Americans.

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

15. What did Stevenson watch England do?
(a) Try to pacify Hitler.
(b) Try to institute a new intelligence system.
(c) Try to appease Mussolini.
(d) Try to defeat Hitler with propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Stevenson's BSC busy doing?

2. What was Donovan investigating?

3. Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

4. Of what did Roosevelt have to convince Americans?

5. Why was flying to England monthly dangerous for Stevenson?

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