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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Harry Gold born?
(a) May 22, 1915.
(b) March 29, 1908.
(c) December 11, 1910.
(d) July 7, 1917.

2. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) 29.
(b) 39.
(c) 51.
(d) 46.

3. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?
(a) Norway.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Canada.

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?"
(a) "A tank rolling down the street."
(b) "A beaver on a dam."
(c) "Two dogs in a boat."
(d) "Three pink elephants."

5. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Lise Meitner.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

6. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?
(a) September 1, 1939.
(b) April 22, 1940.
(c) November 1, 1937.
(d) December 11, 1938.

7. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?
(a) The University of New York.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

8. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?
(a) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(b) Passaic, New Jersey.
(c) Oxford, Mississippi.
(d) Hyde Park, New York.

9. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?
(a) Canada.
(b) The United States.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Switzerland.

10. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Scott Miller.
(b) Richard Brennan.
(c) Derek Curtis-Bennett.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

11. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

12. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?
(a) Derek Curtis-Bennett and Paul Sachs.
(b) Ted Hall and Lewis Strauss.
(c) James Wilson and Peter Martin.
(d) Scott Miller and Richard Brennan.

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

14. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Brooklyn, New York.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

15. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) Melba Phillips.
(b) Sarah Williams.
(c) Ruth Werner.
(d) Lise Meitner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?

2. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?

3. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?

4. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?

5. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?

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