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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Bohr begin to work on in the United States?
(a) The double helix.
(b) Nothing; the Americans did not trust him.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The hydrogen bomb.

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

4. What did Stevenson confiscate?
(a) Several million Dutch-marks in U. S. banks.
(b) A third of the money sent to Mexico.
(c) A plane used to illegally transport intelligence for the Nazis.
(d) About 90 percent of the money sent to Mexico.

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

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

7. Why did the British sink the French fleet at Oran?
(a) As a warning.
(b) In reprisal for a French betrayal of a spy mission.
(c) To form mines near the English channel.
(d) To to keep the ships from being turned over to the Germans.

8. What was spotted in Norway in May of 1941?
(a) The Bismarck.
(b) The Eagle.
(c) The Queen Victoria.
(d) The Essex.

9. What ship was sunk in the area of Norway?
(a) The Prince of Wales.
(b) The Dorsetshire.
(c) The Hood.
(d) The Prinz Eugen.

10. Who had control of the heavy water plant in Norway?
(a) Hitler.
(b) No one; it was destroyed.
(c) The allies.
(d) The heavy water plant was located in Copenhagen.

11. Who continued his work in Copenhagen?
(a) Von Braun.
(b) Himmler.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Dr. Niels Bohr.

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

13. How did the Germans retaliate for Heydrich's death?
(a) Bombed Bilovec until it was all rubble.
(b) Ordering a dusk to dawn curfew.
(c) Killing 100 Czechs every evening.
(d) Setting fire to the crops.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nazis begin to do in Denmark?

2. What did Heydrich's plan for the Czech nation suggest?

3. What was under the atomic research lab in Copenhagen?

4. Who had a relationship with I. B. Farben?

5. How were German U-boats located?

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