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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Polio.

3. Where was Harry Truman a senator in early 1944?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Arkansas.

4. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
(a) Norway.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Austria.

5. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?
(a) Dresden, Germany.
(b) Heidelbrg, Germany.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Zurich, Switzerland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?

2. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

3. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?

4. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?

5. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?

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