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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what name did Dorothy McKibben's potential employer introduce himself when he interviewed with her at a Santa Fe hotel in March of 1943?
(a) Mr. Bradley.
(b) Mr. Anderson.
(c) Mr. Werner.
(d) Mr. Smith.

2. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 12 years of evidence.
(b) 4 years of evidence.
(c) 17 years of evidence.
(d) 20 years of evidence.

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

4. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?
(a) Hans Bethe.
(b) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(c) Alexander Feklisov.
(d) Robert Serber.

5. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 19.
(b) 32.
(c) 24.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?

2. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?

3. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?

4. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?

5. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?

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