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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 was the Army Chief of Staff in late 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) General George Marshall.
(d) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.

2. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Cinder.
(c) Chico.
(d) Ella.

3. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) May 22, 1942.
(c) September 18, 1942.
(d) October 21, 1939.

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

5. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 33.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the ferry boat that the Germans were using to transport heavy water from the Vemork plant?

2. Who told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?

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 mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?

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

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