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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The Labor Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. Upon landing on the Vemork mission, how long did Poulsson tell his team they had to "reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site"?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

3. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) John Wilson.

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

5. 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) Scott Miller.
(c) George Eltenton.
(d) Henry Stimson.

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

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

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

9. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) MI-5.
(b) Special Training School No. 3.
(c) Werner Underground Training Facility.
(d) The Los Alamos Ranch School.

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

11. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 19.
(b) 24.
(c) 29.
(d) 32.

12. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) September 1, 1939.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) May 22, 1940.
(d) October 21, 1939.

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

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

15. 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"?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Alexander Feklisov.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?

2. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

3. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

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

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

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