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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far was Oppeneheimer's bomb shelter from the blast site for the testing of the plutonium bomb?
(a) 20 miles away.
(b) 10 miles away.
(c) 6 miles away.
(d) 2 miles away.

2. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel John Wilson.
(b) Lt. Colonel Robert Serber.
(c) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(d) General Brehon Somervell.

3. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. 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 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.
(c) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(d) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.

5. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
(a) Princeton, New Jersey.
(b) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(c) Peconic, New York.
(d) New Paltz, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

2. Who was the pilot that Tibbets assigned to drop the second bomb on Japan?

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

4. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?

5. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

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