View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Labor Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. What sentence did Klause Fuchs receive for passing the Soviets information about the atomic bomb?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) 14 years in prison.
(c) 50 years in prison.
(d) Execution.

3. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) September 1, 1939.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) October 21, 1939.
(d) May 22, 1940.

4. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?
(a) May 22, 1908.
(b) April 22, 1904.
(c) November 1, 1914.
(d) December 11, 1910.

5. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?

2. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?

3. 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?

4. How many barrels of heavy water were loaded onto the ferry to be transported from the Vemork plant when Haukelid rigged a bomb on the ferry?

5. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 202 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample