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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "On the Cliff" – "High Concentration".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon landing on the Vemork mission, how long did Poulsson tell his team they had to "reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site"?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

2. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) George Eltenton.
(b) Richard Brennan.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) Jens Poulsson.

3. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

4. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?
(a) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(b) Oxford, Mississippi.
(c) Passaic, New Jersey.
(d) Hyde Park, New York.

5. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?
(a) The United States.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Canada.
(d) Switzerland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?

2. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?

3. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?

4. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?

5. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?

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