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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Stevenson plant to imply a plot against President Vargas?
(a) Foreged letters and documents.
(b) A video.
(c) Several anonymous phone calls.
(d) A red herring.

2. Where did the French have gold hidden?
(a) At a fort on Martinique.
(b) At a fort on Gibraltar.
(c) In Brazil.
(d) In the West Indies.

3. On account of what did J. Edgar Hoover blame Stevenson's request for information was not answered.
(a) A downed radio station.
(b) A lack of personnel to process the request.
(c) Misinterpreted codes.
(d) Communist sympathizers.

4. What helped make the D-Day invasion easier for Allied bombers?
(a) Hitler's concentration on the Russian front.
(b) The theft of equipment at the radar station.
(c) A new type of guided rocket.
(d) A new type of scatter bomb.

5. What did the Germans spend years doing prior to WWII in the United States?
(a) Consolidating the interests of their industrial concerns.
(b) Engaging in espionage especially about the plans for the atomic bomb.
(c) Establishing a spy network.
(d) Buying land in remote areas.

6. When did the relations between British and American intelligence become strained?
(a) After SPARTA.
(b) After TORCH.
(c) After TROY.
(d) After PHARAOH.

7. What was the code name for the invasion of French North Africa?
(a) PHARAOH.
(b) TORCH.
(c) SPARTA.
(d) TROY.

8. Why was J. Edgar Hoover angry?
(a) Because the United States is willing to ally with communist Russia.
(b) Because Roosevelt left him out of some important planning sessions.
(c) Because Roosevelt makes him hire several of Donovan's cronies.
(d) At Bill Donovan's appointment.

9. What did Hoover not find credible?
(a) SUGAR DADDY.
(b) SNOWMAN.
(c) TRICYCLE.
(d) ENIGMA.

10. To whom did Bohr give his important papers and tell to escape?
(a) Stefan Rozental.
(b) No one.
(c) Clyde Greenbaum.
(d) Warner Von Braun.

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

12. What did CYNTHIA obtain from a former lover?
(a) The codes for the new Enigma.
(b) The Polish naval ciphers.
(c) The Russian naval ciphers.
(d) The Italian naval ciphers.

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

14. Who was skeptical of the plans for the North African invasion?
(a) Westmoreland.
(b) Eisnehower.
(c) Churchill.
(d) MacArthur.

15. How long did it take the Germans to make the Norsk Hydro plant operational again after it was destroyed?
(a) Never.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plans were begun in August 1941?

2. Through whom did the United States pass arms to the British?

3. How did the Germans retaliate for Heydrich's death?

4. What was spotted in Norway in May of 1941?

5. Why did the papers not arrive?

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