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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Roosevelt vacationing at the opening of Chapter 26?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The Caribbean.
(d) Peru.

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

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

4. In what was the Black Chamber involved?
(a) Working on nuclear fusion.
(b) Codes and ciphers.
(c) Rescuing Jews from Germany.
(d) Radio operations in France.

5. With whom did King George V say he would not collaborate?
(a) Any German puppet government.
(b) Poland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Sweden.

6. 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.

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

8. What did the network of amateur Swede code breakers intercept?
(a) Germany's intent to invade Poland.
(b) Finland's intent to give the British full access to their heavy water.
(c) Russia's intent to invade Finland.
(d) Germany's intent to cross the English channel.

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

10. Who had German agents tailing him in London?
(a) Stevenson.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Queen Wilhelmina.
(d) Donovan.

11. What did Stevenson and a chemical engineer figure out how to do?
(a) Create a underground heavy water facility.
(b) Repeal an invasion from Hitler.
(c) Sabotage the heavy water.
(d) Sabotage the iron ore plants.

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

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

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

15. What did Stevenson's London office serve as?
(a) A clearinghouse for information.
(b) A place for developing various code machines.
(c) A training lab for spies.
(d) A place to hold secret meetings with Eurpean heads of state.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the "trappers"?

3. What was now known to the public about Roosevelt and the British?

4. Who was Colonel Bill Donovan?

5. What were the Americans doing in the field of codes?

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