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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

2. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(b) Laboratory Number 2.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) MI-5.

3. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) July, 1943.
(b) November, 1943.
(c) August, 1942.
(d) September, 1944.

4. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Norway.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Canada.

5. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) MI-5.
(b) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) Werner Underground Training Facility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Paul Tibbets ordered to go to meet with Air Force General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?

2. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?

3. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?

4. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?

5. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?

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