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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 many of the 76,000 buildings in Hiroshima, how many still stood after the dropping of the atomic bomb?
(a) 70,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 1,000.

2. What was the name of Britain's main atomic research center in 1949?
(a) Laboratory Number 2.
(b) Harwell.
(c) MI-5.
(d) Los Alamos.

3. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?
(a) Samuel Goudsmit.
(b) Arne Kjelstrup.
(c) Lewis Strauss.
(d) Kurt Diebner.

4. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Ruth Werner.

5. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Labor Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?

2. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?

3. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?

4. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?

5. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

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