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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was now known to the public about Roosevelt and the British?
(a) The extent of their agreements.
(b) Why Roosevelt is re-elected which is due to covert work by British intelligence.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The things Roosevelt said about the Brits in private.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. Where was Stevenson shot down in WWI?
(a) New Guinea.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Southern Russia.

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

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

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

11. Who did Stevenson want to bring into Bletchley?
(a) French intelligence agents.
(b) Swedish intelligence agents.
(c) Canadian intelligence agents.
(d) American intelligence agents.

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

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

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

15. What did Stevenson discover through his message interception network?
(a) Hitler's plans for India.
(b) Hitler's plan to send assassins to the United States and England.
(c) Hitler's plans for Latin America.
(d) Hitler's plans for China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two agencies was cooperation arranged?

2. Who had German agents tailing him in London?

3. What did Hitler want destroyed before invading England?

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

5. Where was William Stevenson born?

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