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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 was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?
(a) The 219th Composite Group.
(b) The 49th Air Brigade.
(c) The 109th Composite Group.
(d) The 509th Composite Group.

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

3. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?
(a) Heidelbrg, Germany.
(b) Dresden, Germany.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

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

5. Who represented Klaus Fuchs in his espionage trial?
(a) Derek Curtis-Bennett.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Richard Brennan.
(d) Ted Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?

2. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?

3. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?

4. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?

5. Who was Japan's top atomic physicist during WWII?

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