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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1941.

2. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Chico.
(b) Ella.
(c) Cinder.
(d) Jackson.

3. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?
(a) General Brehon Somervell.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Bob Wilson.

4. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?
(a) April 22, 1940.
(b) December 11, 1938.
(c) September 1, 1939.
(d) November 1, 1937.

5. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?
(a) December 11, 1941.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) May 22, 1943.
(d) June 19, 1942.

Short Answer 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?

2. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

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

4. What official statement was released regarding the blast from the plutonium bomb test at Los Alamos?

5. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?

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