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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 illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Polio.
(d) Asthma.

2. Who was the chief of intelligenge of Japan's army in August of 1945?
(a) General Korechika Anami.
(b) General Yoshio Nishina.
(c) General Seizo Arisue.
(d) General Shigenori Togo.

3. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) November, 1943.
(b) August, 1942.
(c) September, 1944.
(d) July, 1943.

4. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?
(a) December 18, 1944.
(b) April 15, 1943.
(c) September 18, 1944.
(d) November 16, 1945.

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) Melba Phillips.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Ruth Werner.
(d) Sarah Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Japan surrender in World War II?

2. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

3. Who was the Army Counter-Intelligence officer that questioned Paul Tibbets before he met with General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?

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

5. Who was Ted Hall's lab partner at Los Alamos?

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