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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom did Stevenson battle about U.S. companies and their foreign subsidiaries doing business with the Nazis?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Donovan.
(d) John L. Lewis.

3. Where was an assassination team waiting to kill Heydrich?
(a) In Heydrich's personal quarters.
(b) At the airport from which Heydrich was flying.
(c) In the assembly building.
(d) At a hair pin curve.

4. Who seemed to have the greatest chance of being first to develop the atomic bomb?
(a) American.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Britian.
(d) Denmark.

5. What reached the Italian Embassy in Rio?
(a) Intelligence about the next thrust of Hitler's plan for Latin America.
(b) Some of the money transferred to Mexico.
(c) Several exposed double agents.
(d) Two KGB agents who were working for the United States.

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

7. What enabled the the invasion fleet for North Africa pass through the Straights of Gibraltar?
(a) A nighttime passage.
(b) The fake invasion at Brest.
(c) Misinformation that sent the Germans towards Dakar.
(d) Continuous bombing of the German forces in the area.

8. What did the German's revenge spark?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The resistance movement.
(c) Several more European countries to join the allies.
(d) Russia joining the allies.

9. What did the Allies use at first to try to attack the heavy water plant?
(a) Gliders.
(b) Bombs dropped by B-52s.
(c) Internal sabotage by Norwegians who worked there.
(d) Unmanned missles.

10. Who was Cheese?
(a) The agent who was to sabotage the Norsk Hydro plant.
(b) A code name for an operation to steal the German's atomic bomb plans.
(c) The agent who was to sabotage the Soviet vessel Mein Kampf.
(d) The agent who was to sabotage the munitions factory in Dresden.

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

12. Where was the German radar?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Brest.
(d) Dieppe.

13. What did the BSC work to keep from happening in Mexican ports?
(a) Sale of munitions to Germany.
(b) German ships resupplying there.
(c) Sabotage of U. S. naval vessels.
(d) Sale of munitions to Japan.

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

15. What did Bohr manage to do at the end of September?
(a) Escape arrest by the Gestapo.
(b) Kill one of the most loyal Nazi scientists who was on the verge of a breakthrough.
(c) Get his family out of Denmark.
(d) Find a way to send his work out of Norway.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Americans learn the value of when the Bismarck was found and sunk?

3. Who was Aage?

4. Who continued his work in Copenhagen?

5. What operation succeeded in deceiving the enemy?

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