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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Skinny Superhero" – "Enormoz".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) Lewis Strauss.

2. What is the atomic number of uranium?
(a) 92.
(b) 180.
(c) 96.
(d) 72.

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

4. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 12 years of evidence.
(b) 4 years of evidence.
(c) 20 years of evidence.
(d) 17 years of evidence.

5. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?
(a) Scott Miller.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?

3. When did German forces capture Norway and Denmark during World War II?

4. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?

5. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

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