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

2. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?
(a) October 21, 1939.
(b) November 16, 1942.
(c) October 8, 1942.
(d) December 18, 1942.

3. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) September 18, 1942.
(d) October 8, 1942.

4. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?
(a) Ted Hall and Lewis Strauss.
(b) Derek Curtis-Bennett and Paul Sachs.
(c) James Wilson and Peter Martin.
(d) Scott Miller and Richard Brennan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

2. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

3. 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?

4. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?

5. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?

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