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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. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
(a) Austria.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Norway.

2. Near what town was the Vemork power plant located?
(a) Rjukan, Norway.
(b) Haugesund, Norway.
(c) Grimstad, Norway.
(d) Zurich, Switzerland.

3. When did German forces capture Norway and Denmark during World War II?
(a) March, 1941.
(b) April, 1940.
(c) May, 1939.
(d) July, 1940.

4. 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) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) Lise Meitner.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

3. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?

4. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

5. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

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