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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 Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?
(a) General Brehon Somervell.
(b) General Lewis Strauss.
(c) General Scott Miller.
(d) General Richard Brennan.

2. What type of plane carried the bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) An A-36 Apache.
(b) A Grumman Goblin.
(c) A Hawker Demon.
(d) A B-29 bomber.

3. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash and General George Marshall.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer and Arne Kjelstrup.
(c) General Brehon Somervell and Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Major Robert Furman and Captain James Nolan.

4. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(b) Laboratory Number 2.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) MI-5.

5. What was the name of Britain's main atomic research center in 1949?
(a) Los Alamos.
(b) Harwell.
(c) Laboratory Number 2.
(d) MI-5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original target for the bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?

2. What sentence did Klause Fuchs receive for passing the Soviets information about the atomic bomb?

3. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?

4. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?

5. The bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki exploded with the force of how many tons of TNT?

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