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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 informed Otto Hahn that the Americans had just dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima?
(a) Richard Brennan.
(b) Robert Serber.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) T. H. Rittner.

2. Where was the second secret plant developed to produce U-235?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Malvern, Indiana.
(c) Roswell, New Mexico.
(d) Hanford, Washington.

3. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?
(a) 5.
(b) 27.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

4. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

5. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?
(a) Malvern, Nebraska.
(b) Los Alamos, New Mexico.
(c) Juneau, Alaska.
(d) Wendover, Utah.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date was Albert Einstein's letter to the U.S. President warning of Germany's development of an atomic bomb delivered?

3. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

4. What was Poulsson's answer to the pre-arranged security question, "What did you see walking down the Strand in the early hours of January 1, 1941?"

5. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer officially resign as the director of Los Alamos?

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