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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. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?
(a) At a print shop.
(b) At a telegram office.
(c) At a soap factory.
(d) At a butcher shop.

2. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Labor Party.

3. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of California, Berkeley.
(d) The University of New York.

4. 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."

5. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?
(a) Canada.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Norway.
(d) Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

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

3. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

4. What does "blitzkrieg" translate to in English?

5. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?

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