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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the BSC work to keep from happening in Mexican ports?

2. What did CYNTHIA obtain from a former lover?

3. What did Hitler use to make decisions?

4. When did Heydrich die?

5. What did the men throw at Heydrich's car as it passed them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did J. Edgar Hoover get angry and how does Stevenson try to appease the man?

2. What did the BSC plan to do about Heydrich and what is one of his most despicable duties?

3. Who was Niels Bohr and why are the British interested in him?

4. How did the BSC set up Hitler to believe that Heydrich's death was "in the stars"?

5. What did the Russians want of the allies and what are the Russians considering?

6. How did Stevenson stymie money laundering efforts by the Nazis in Mexico?

7. What did the Brits do to even the research race for the atomic bomb?

8. Describe how the Bismarck was encountered in Norwegian waters by the Hood.

9. Where did Bohr and his son, Aage, ultimately end up?

10. At what did operation JUBILEE succeed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The field of codes and ciphers played an important role in the war strategy of both the Allies and the Axis powers. Discuss the following:

1. Define and compare a code and a cipher.

2. Trace and analyze the theme of codes and ciphers throughout the book. Were they in use before WWII? When? How? How were codes and ciphers generated during WWII? How secure were codes and ciphers? Who had an edge on the other powers when it came to the use of codes and ciphers?

3. The Americans came up with a unique means of communicating securely by the use of "Navajo Code Talkers." Research and explain what that was about.

Essay Topic 2

King George V makes it clear he will not leave England if the Germans invade and will not collaborate with any German puppet government. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think King George's actions are admirable? Why or why not?

2. Research the monarchs of several other European countries and compare/contrast the actions of three other countries to that of King George in response to the threats from the Germans.

3. How do you think you would have responded as a King/Queen were Hitler to invade your country? Explain fully.

Essay Topic 3

Plans for the assassination of Heydrich began in August 1941, even through they didn't carry out the plot until after Pearl Harbor. As Heydrich lay in a hospital dying, the Germans began a series of retributions by killing one hundred Czechs every evening. More killings followed as houses were searched. The people were killed in the village where the assassins had landed. The village of Lidice was burned to the ground. Discuss the following:

1. Is the act of assassination honorable? Justifiable? Should governments such as the United States condone and assist in assassinations? What about the idea of a fair trial? Does an assassination take that idea into account? Should it?

2. Do you think the BSC and OSS would have carried out the assassination of Heydrich had they known of the probable consequences? Why or why not? Was the assassination of one man worth the death of hundreds more?

3. Thoroughly discuss Henrich Heydrich and his role in the Nazi war machine and atrocities carried out by the Nazis.

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