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

2. Who was Semyon Semyonov's KGB colleague that helped work with him to throw off the scent of the FBI, according to the author in "Rapid Rupture"?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Alexander Feklisov.
(c) Luis Alvarez.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

3. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?
(a) Scott Miller and Richard Brennan.
(b) Ted Hall and Lewis Strauss.
(c) Derek Curtis-Bennett and Paul Sachs.
(d) James Wilson and Peter Martin.

4. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.

5. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?
(a) June, 1941.
(b) July, 1940.
(c) April, 1940.
(d) May, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?

3. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?

4. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?

5. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

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