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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reaction Begins" – "Epilogue".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 300.
(b) 1 out of 10.
(c) 1 out of 130.
(d) 1 out of 50.

3. The bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki exploded with the force of how many tons of TNT?
(a) 34,000.
(b) 22,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?
(a) April 30, 1945.
(b) September 1, 1945.
(c) March 13, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

5. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The White House.
(c) The World Trade Center.
(d) The U.S. Senate Chambers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

2. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?

3. On what date did the United States test its first hydrogen bomb?

4. What was the site named where the plutonium bomb would be tested for the Manhattan Project?

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

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