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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was canceled due to the protests of the royalty of various countries?
(a) ORE GONE.
(b) HAMMER BLOW.
(c) STRIKE OX.
(d) OX BLOW.

2. What was Stevenson working on to aid in code breaking?
(a) Electronic computers.
(b) Nothing at the moment since the Enigma has been mastered.
(c) Random drums.
(d) Intricate puzzles.

3. To where was the Government Code and Cipher School relocated?
(a) Dover.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) Essex.
(d) Bletchley.

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

5. Who was running all of German intelligence?
(a) Goebbels.
(b) Stimmer.
(c) Von Braun.
(d) Heydrich.

6. What was Roosevelt's coded name in his correspondence with Churchill?
(a) MARCUS.
(b) CAESAR.
(c) OSCAR.
(d) POTUS.

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

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

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

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

11. What was talked about to help the Brits?
(a) Giving wartime grants.
(b) Selling war bonds to Americans for England.
(c) Raising a volunteer army to augment British forces.
(d) Loaning war equipment.

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

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

14. Where did Churchill make several trips while the Germans were invading?
(a) Belgium.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) The Netherlands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sir Henry Tizard bring an assortment of confidential information to the United States?

2. What did Stevenson discover through his message interception network?

3. Where was William Stevenson born?

4. How did Donovan delay Hitler's invasion?

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

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