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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shook Britain from its complacency?
(a) Germany's invasion of Portugal.
(b) Germany's invasion of Norway.
(c) Russia's invasion of Norway.
(d) The destruction of the heavy water facility.

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

3. What was HYDRA?
(a) Stevenson's answer to the Enigma machine.
(b) A type of amphibious boat.
(c) A satellite.
(d) A transmitter.

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

5. What did Stevenson establish in Bermuda?
(a) A station similar to Bletchley.
(b) An orphanage for the children whose parents are killed in air raids on London.
(c) A place for him to relax sometimes.
(d) A top secret atomic bomb development center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Hitler in the early 1920s?

2. What sendt Hitler into a rage that results in the heavy bombing of Belgrade?

3. Of what did Roosevelt have to convince Americans?

4. What did the network of amateur Swede code breakers intercept?

5. What was now known to the public about Roosevelt and the British?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were reports sent out from Bermuda?

2. What began on July 10,1940, and how does Britain respond?

3. How did Donovan become more involved with Stevenson's work?

4. What did Heydrich try to accomplish by his party in New York City?

5. What did Stevenson want of Roosevelt, and why was Roosevelt dragging his feet?

6. How was intelligence work in England and the United States developing during the time just before the outbreak of WWII?

7. Discuss Camp X.

8. What were Stevenson and Donovan doing just before Hitler's invasion of Russia?

9. How did William Stevenson get into the field of communications?

10. What efforts were being made in the field of intelligence and codes among countries that would eventually be at war?

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