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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 people were aboard the ferry as it transported heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) 36.
(b) 72.
(c) 53.
(d) 59.

2. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?
(a) San Diego, California.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

3. Who was the Army Counter-Intelligence officer that questioned Paul Tibbets before he met with General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?
(a) Colonel John Wilson.
(b) Colonel Boris Pash.
(c) Major Robert Furman.
(d) Colonel John Lansdale.

4. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?
(a) April, 1940.
(b) May, 1939.
(c) July, 1940.
(d) June, 1941.

5. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 51.
(d) 33.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ted Hall earn his PhD?

2. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?

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

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

5. Who recruited David Greenglass to spy for the Soviets?

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