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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Klaus Fuchs.

2. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?
(a) Norway.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Canada.

3. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?
(a) Mrs. Anderson.
(b) Mrs. Meitner.
(c) Mrs. Phillips.
(d) Mrs. Brewer.

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

5. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1925.

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

7. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Zurich, Switzerland.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) New York, New York.

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

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

10. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The U.S. Senate Chambers.
(c) The White House.
(d) The World Trade Center.

11. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) July, 1941.
(b) February, 1934.
(c) September, 1933.
(d) March, 1932.

12. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?
(a) July 12, 1945.
(b) September 18, 1951.
(c) November 1, 1952.
(d) May 22, 1950.

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

14. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?
(a) 4.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

15. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 20 years of evidence.
(b) 17 years of evidence.
(c) 4 years of evidence.
(d) 12 years of evidence.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

5. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?

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