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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Gatekeeper" – "Two Inside".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Richard Brennan.
(c) Scott Miller.
(d) Derek Curtis-Bennett.

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"?
(a) He shot himself in the foot.
(b) He broke his arm climbing a fence.
(c) He shot himself in the arm.
(d) He almost drowned in a river.

3. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1931.

4. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?
(a) Colonel John Wilson.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) General Brehon Somervell.
(d) Bob Wilson.

5. Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agree to combine their resources and work on atomic weapons in the United States?
(a) Because Britain was inundated with Soviet spies.
(b) Because Britain was under attack from German bombers.
(c) Because the United States had the advantage of top scientists.
(d) Because Britain was about to ally with Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

2. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

4. 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?"

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

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