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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?
(a) July, 1940.
(b) June, 1941.
(c) May, 1939.
(d) April, 1940.

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

6. What is the atomic number of uranium?
(a) 92.
(b) 180.
(c) 72.
(d) 96.

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

8. 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) Luis Alvarez.
(c) Richard Brennan.
(d) Derek Curtis-Bennett.

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

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

11. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?
(a) Hungaria.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Norway.

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

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

14. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) September 18, 1942.
(c) October 8, 1942.
(d) October 21, 1939.

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) December 18, 1942.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) October 8, 1942.
(d) November 16, 1942.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?

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

4. Who was Semyon Semyonov's KGB colleague that helped work with him to throw off the scent of the FBI, according to the author in "Rapid Rupture"?

5. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?

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