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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) Melba Phillips.
(c) Lise Meitner.
(d) Ruth Werner.

2. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?
(a) Oxford, Mississippi.
(b) Passaic, New Jersey.
(c) Hyde Park, New York.
(d) Cambridge, Massachusetts.

3. What was the name of the ferry boat that the Germans were using to transport heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) The Phantom.
(b) The Vesper.
(c) The Tiger.
(d) The Hydro.

4. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?
(a) General George Marshall.
(b) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(c) Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Major Robert Furman.

5. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
(a) Princeton, New Jersey.
(b) Peconic, New York.
(c) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(d) New Paltz, New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?

3. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?

4. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

5. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

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