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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) Norway.
(d) France.

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

3. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(b) Special Training School No. 3.
(c) Werner Underground Training Facility.
(d) MI-5.

4. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Oslo, Norway.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?

3. What was Poulsson's answer to the pre-arranged security question, "What did you see walking down the Strand in the early hours of January 1, 1941?"

4. What does S.O.E. stand for?

5. Prior to the development of the atomic bomb, where did the largest man-made explosion in history occur?

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