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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what were the Russians pushing?
(a) Opening a third front.
(b) Conceding Poland and Hungary.
(c) An atomic bomb on Berlin.
(d) Opening a second front.

2. Who was supposed to force a wedge between BSC and the OSS?
(a) Philby.
(b) Burgess.
(c) Greenglass.
(d) Keen.

3. What happened to the village of Lidice?
(a) It was totally destroyed and its fields salted.
(b) It was spared since it tried to report the possible assassination.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It was burned to the ground.

4. What did Churchill learn when he and Roosevelt met on June 17?
(a) That Tobruk fell.
(b) That the allies were still hoding Tobruk but rather tenuously.
(c) That Stalin had met with German representatives.
(d) That the Americans wanted to concentrate on the Pacific arena.

5. What did the Nazis begin to do in Denmark?
(a) Ship Danes to work as virtual slaves on missle projects.
(b) Round up the Danish royal family.
(c) Conscript Danish men.
(d) Round up Jews.

6. What did Bohr refuse?
(a) To sabotage the plant.
(b) To turn over his research notes to scientists in the United States.
(c) To stop his work and move to England.
(d) To try to assassinate Hitler the next time Hitler visited.

7. What were the British warships forming a trap for?
(a) The Hannover.
(b) The Bismarck.
(c) The Prinz Eugen.
(d) The Pommern.

8. What correspondence was CYNTHIA asked to obtain?
(a) Between the Vichy French and Europe.
(b) Between Austria and Germany.
(c) Between Hitler and Mussolini.
(d) Between Stalin and Hitler.

9. What did the men throw at Heydrich's car as it passed them?
(a) Acid.
(b) Flowers to confuse him.
(c) A grenade.
(d) A letter with an ultimatum.

10. What did the Americans learn the value of when the Bismarck was found and sunk?
(a) Using the Enigma machine.
(b) Radio traffic analysis.
(c) Cooperation among allies.
(d) The Americans' help.

11. What was under the atomic research lab in Copenhagen?
(a) A heavy water cyclotron.
(b) A back-up record of all the research notes.
(c) An atom splitter.
(d) A huge fusion tunnel.

12. What was captured in the St. Lawrence in December 1941?
(a) The Polish crown prince.
(b) Two Islands.
(c) The Russian chief of staff.
(d) The Swedish head of intelligence.

13. Who did CYNTHIA ask for help in obtaining the French naval ciphers?
(a) Mapausant.
(b) Brousse.
(c) No one.
(d) De Gaulle.

14. What did some agents use for money when desperate?
(a) Laundered money.
(b) Stolen money.
(c) Money intended for the local populace.
(d) Counterfeit currency.

15. How were German U-boats located?
(a) By a machine called an oscilloscope.
(b) Using HF/DF (HuffDuff).
(c) By overflight of planes.
(d) By dropping depth charges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hoover not find credible?

2. On account of what did J. Edgar Hoover blame Stevenson's request for information was not answered.

3. What did Bohr manage to do at the end of September?

4. Where was the German radar?

5. Who was left in Sweden after Bohr flew to England?

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