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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris?
(a) Heydrich's first cousin.
(b) Heydrich's father-in-law.
(c) Heydrich's brother-in-law.
(d) Hitler's brother-in-law.

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

6. 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.

7. Where was Hitler in the early 1920s?
(a) Touring the United States.
(b) Prison.
(c) In the German parliament.
(d) Working as a baker.

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

9. What was the formal name given to the Baker Street Irregulars?
(a) Baker Executive.
(b) Special Baker Outfit.
(c) Central Operations.
(d) Special Operations Executive.

10. Why couldn't Roosevelt be openly pro-war?
(a) He was running for re-election.
(b) He was afraid of the Americans rebelling.
(c) He vacillated about where he stood on the issue.
(d) He was afraid of assassination by German agents.

11. 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 Royal Navy underwater demolition teams.
(c) The netword of Island resistance.
(d) The mine fields in the channel.

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

13. Of what did Roosevelt have to convince Americans?
(a) To enlist voluntarily.
(b) To declare war on Japan.
(c) To support England.
(d) To sacrifice personal comforts.

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

15. What did ships from the United States to Lisbon receive when they stopped in Bermuda?
(a) Retrofitting with spying equipment.
(b) Reports written in invisible ink.
(c) The changes in the codes.
(d) Special antiaircraft weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was talked about to help the Brits?

2. What did Stevenson establish in Bermuda?

3. What company did Stevenson form with two other men?

4. What was a serious problem for British shipping?

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

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