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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Scott Miller.
(b) Richard Brennan.
(c) Luis Alvarez.
(d) Derek Curtis-Bennett.

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

4. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Princeton University.

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1931.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?

2. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?

3. What does "blitzkrieg" translate to in English?

4. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?

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