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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 alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?
(a) Mrs. Meitner.
(b) Mrs. Anderson.
(c) Mrs. Brewer.
(d) Mrs. Phillips.

2. Upon landing on the Vemork mission, how long did Poulsson tell his team they had to "reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site"?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

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

4. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) July, 1943.
(b) September, 1944.
(c) August, 1942.
(d) November, 1943.

5. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?
(a) March 13, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) September 1, 1945.
(d) April 30, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?

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

3. What was the name of the estate in England where the German scientists were taken after the European war ended?

4. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?

5. What was the name of the area at Los Alamos where Robert Oppenheimer lived?

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