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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?
(a) Ruth Werner.
(b) Samuel Goudsmit.
(c) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(d) Hans Bethe.

2. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

3. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?
(a) Arne Kjelstrup's.
(b) Hans Bethe's.
(c) Jens Poulsson's.
(d) Robert Serber's.

4. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?
(a) 19.
(b) 5.
(c) 27.
(d) 16.

5. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

2. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?

3. What was the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1943?

4. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

5. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

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