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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon landing on the Vemork mission, how long did Poulsson tell his team they had to "reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site"?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

2. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1938.

3. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Robert Serber.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Jens Poulsson.

4. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?
(a) Samuel Goudsmit.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Arne Kjelstrup.
(d) Kurt Diebner.

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's former girlfriend whom he met in San Francisco on June 14, 1943?
(a) Jean Tatlock.
(b) Melba Phillips.
(c) Lise Meitner.
(d) Ruth Werner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How heavy was the bomb that Haukelid planted on the ferry that was to transport the heavy water from the Vemork plant?

2. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?

3. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?

4. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?

5. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

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