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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. 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) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 29.

2. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?
(a) July 12, 1945.
(b) May 22, 1950.
(c) September 18, 1951.
(d) November 1, 1952.

3. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) October 8, 1942.
(c) October 21, 1939.
(d) September 18, 1942.

4. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Polio.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. 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 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(c) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(d) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

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

3. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?

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

5. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?

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