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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 told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?
(a) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Colonel Boris Pash.

2. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

3. How heavy was the bomb that Haukelid planted on the ferry that was to transport the heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) 14 pounds.
(b) 8 pounds.
(c) 30 pounds.
(d) 19 pounds.

4. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1938.

5. 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) 32.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?

2. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?

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

4. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?

5. On what date was the first meeting of the physicists at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

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