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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?
(a) December 11, 1941.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) May 22, 1943.
(d) June 19, 1942.

2. On what date was the first meeting of the physicists at the Los Alamos Ranch School?
(a) September 18, 1942.
(b) April 15, 1943.
(c) October 21, 1943.
(d) November 16, 1942.

3. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 29.
(b) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 32.

4. What did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Sulphuric acid.
(c) Milk.
(d) Honey.

5. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Joe Stevenson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Bob Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?

2. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?

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

4. Who informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?

5. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?

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