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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reaction Begins" – "Epilogue".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?
(a) Los Alamos, New Mexico.
(b) Malvern, Nebraska.
(c) Juneau, Alaska.
(d) Wendover, Utah.

2. 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 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(b) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(c) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(d) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.

3. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Joe Stevenson.

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

5. By what name did Dorothy McKibben's potential employer introduce himself when he interviewed with her at a Santa Fe hotel in March of 1943?
(a) Mr. Smith.
(b) Mr. Werner.
(c) Mr. Bradley.
(d) Mr. Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?

2. What does the Army's "CIC" refer to?

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

4. Who informed Otto Hahn that the Americans had just dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima?

5. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?

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