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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Alexander Sachs.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Scott Miller.

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

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

4. 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.

5. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?
(a) He almost drowned in a river.
(b) He broke his arm climbing a fence.
(c) He shot himself in the foot.
(d) He shot himself in the arm.

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

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

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

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

10. How far did the British plane drop Poulsson's team from their intended drop target on the Vemork mission?
(a) 10 miles away.
(b) 100 miles away.
(c) 65 miles away.
(d) 45 miles away.

11. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) The University of Bristol.
(c) Zurich University.
(d) The University of Chicago.

12. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) John Wilson.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Scott Miller.

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

14. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?
(a) 41.
(b) 36.
(c) 32.
(d) 26.

15. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?
(a) November 16, 1942.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) October 8, 1942.
(d) December 18, 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

2. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?

3. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?

4. What does S.O.E. stand for?

5. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

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