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

2. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 32.
(b) 24.
(c) 29.
(d) 19.

3. When General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?
(a) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(b) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(c) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(d) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.

4. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?
(a) Canada.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Norway.

5. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?
(a) Because "Manhattan" was code for "bomb."
(b) Because its initial offices were in Manhattan.
(c) Because Manhattan was the name of the man who developed the bomb.
(d) Because the first atomic tests were to be performed in Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?

2. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

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

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

5. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?

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