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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?
(a) Hyde Park, New York.
(b) Oxford, Mississippi.
(c) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(d) Passaic, New Jersey.

3. Who was Japan's top atomic physicist during WWII?
(a) Korechika Anami.
(b) Yoshio Nishina.
(c) Torashiro Kawabe.
(d) Shigenori Togo.

4. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?
(a) 35.
(b) 31.
(c) 29.
(d) 26.

5. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?
(a) 32.
(b) 41.
(c) 26.
(d) 36.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?

2. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?

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

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

5. Where was Harry Truman a senator in early 1944?

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