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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. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.

2. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Zurich.

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

4. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) The University of Bristol.
(d) Zurich University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?

2. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?

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

4. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

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