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

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

3. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Jens Poulsson.
(c) Richard Brennan.
(d) George Eltenton.

4. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?
(a) Norway.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Hungaria.
(d) Sweden.

5. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) The World Trade Center.
(b) The Pentagon.
(c) The U.S. Senate Chambers.
(d) The White House.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?

2. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?

3. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?

4. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?

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

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