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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 was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Oslo, Norway.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Paris, France.

2. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?
(a) Norway.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Canada.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Robert Oppenheimer weigh when he underwent an army physical prior to being appointed to the Manhattan Project?

2. At what hotel did Dorothy McKibben meet her potential employer to interview for a confidential job in March of 1943?

3. 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"?

4. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?

5. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?

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