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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "On the Cliff" – "High Concentration".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.

2. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

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

4. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) John Wilson.
(b) Scott Miller.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Henry Stimson.

5. Where was Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?

2. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

3. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?

4. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?

5. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

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