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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the site named where the plutonium bomb would be tested for the Manhattan Project?
(a) Sub-Zero.
(b) Trinity.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Marketplace.

2. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) Scott Miller.
(b) John Wilson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Henry Stimson.

4. What ship carried the uranium for its trip to Tinian?
(a) The USS Indianapolis.
(b) The USS Cleveland.
(c) The USS Manhattan.
(d) The USS Pittsburgh.

5. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?
(a) Norway.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Korea.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harry Truman meet Joseph Stalin for the first time?

2. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?

3. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?

4. How heavy was the bomb that Haukelid planted on the ferry that was to transport the heavy water from the Vemork plant?

5. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

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