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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 General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?
(a) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(c) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(d) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.

2. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?
(a) Because the first atomic tests were to be performed in Manhattan.
(b) Because Manhattan was the name of the man who developed the bomb.
(c) Because its initial offices were in Manhattan.
(d) Because "Manhattan" was code for "bomb."

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

4. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 4 years of evidence.
(b) 20 years of evidence.
(c) 17 years of evidence.
(d) 12 years of evidence.

5. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

2. How far did the British plane drop Poulsson's team from their intended drop target on the Vemork mission?

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

4. Where was Knut Haukelid born?

5. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?

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