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

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

3. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?
(a) Norway.
(b) Hungaria.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Switzerland.

4. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?
(a) At a soap factory.
(b) At a print shop.
(c) At a telegram office.
(d) At a butcher shop.

5. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) October 21, 1939.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) May 22, 1940.
(d) September 1, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?

2. On what date was Albert Einstein's letter to the U.S. President warning of Germany's development of an atomic bomb delivered?

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

4. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

5. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?

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