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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Gatekeeper" – "Two Inside".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Harry Gold born?
(a) December 11, 1910.
(b) July 7, 1917.
(c) May 22, 1915.
(d) March 29, 1908.

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) February, 1934.
(b) March, 1932.
(c) July, 1941.
(d) September, 1933.

3. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?
(a) 35.
(b) 51.
(c) 40.
(d) 33.

4. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?
(a) September 18, 1942.
(b) June 19, 1942.
(c) October 21, 1939.
(d) May 22, 1942.

5. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) John Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harry Truman a senator in early 1944?

2. Who told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?

3. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?

4. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?

5. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?

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