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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?
(a) At a butcher shop.
(b) At a telegram office.
(c) At a soap factory.
(d) At a print shop.

2. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?
(a) Jens Poulsson's.
(b) Hans Bethe's.
(c) Robert Serber's.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup's.

3. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Polio.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) John Wilson.
(b) Scott Miller.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Henry Stimson.

5. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?
(a) He was a professional basketball player.
(b) He was a professional football player.
(c) He was a psychiatrist.
(d) He was a professional baseball player.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the estate in England where the German scientists were taken after the European war ended?

3. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

4. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?

5. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?

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