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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Chicago.

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

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

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

6. On what date was Albert Einstein's letter to the U.S. President warning of Germany's development of an atomic bomb delivered?
(a) April 22, 1938.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) September 1, 1939.
(d) November 1, 1939.

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

8. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?
(a) May 22, 1942.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) June 19, 1942.
(d) September 18, 1942.

9. When did German forces capture Norway and Denmark during World War II?
(a) April, 1940.
(b) July, 1940.
(c) May, 1939.
(d) March, 1941.

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

11. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
(a) New Paltz, New York.
(b) Peconic, New York.
(c) Princeton, New Jersey.
(d) New Brunswick, New Jersey.

12. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Newark.
(c) New York.
(d) Jersey City.

13. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Harvard University.

14. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) Alexander Sachs.
(c) Richard Brennan.
(d) George Eltenton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?"

3. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?

4. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

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"?

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