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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) Bathtub Row.
(c) Compana Hill.
(d) Trinity.

2. What ship carried the uranium for its trip to Tinian?
(a) The USS Pittsburgh.
(b) The USS Cleveland.
(c) The USS Indianapolis.
(d) The USS Manhattan.

3. What did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?
(a) Honey.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Sulphuric acid.
(d) Milk.

4. What does the Army's "CIC" refer to?
(a) Counter-Intelligence Corps.
(b) Central-Intelligence Corps.
(c) Cultural Intelligence Corps.
(d) Community Intelligence Cadets.

5. What was the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1943?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 20,000.

6. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel John Wilson.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) Lt. Colonel Robert Serber.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.

7. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's former girlfriend whom he met in San Francisco on June 14, 1943?
(a) Melba Phillips.
(b) Ruth Werner.
(c) Lise Meitner.
(d) Jean Tatlock.

8. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 10.
(b) 1 out of 50.
(c) 1 out of 300.
(d) 1 out of 130.

9. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Heidelbrg, Germany.
(c) Dresden, Germany.
(d) Zurich, Switzerland.

10. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Henry Farmer.
(d) Joe Stevenson.

11. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?
(a) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Luis Alvarez.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Jens Poulsson.

12. What does the "OSS" stand for?
(a) Office of Social Services.
(b) Office of Strategic Services.
(c) Office of Systems Services.
(d) Office of Soviet Services.

13. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?
(a) 29.
(b) 35.
(c) 26.
(d) 31.

14. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash and General George Marshall.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer and Arne Kjelstrup.
(c) Major Robert Furman and Captain James Nolan.
(d) General Brehon Somervell and Colonel John Wilson.

15. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?
(a) The Castillo Street Bridge.
(b) The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.
(c) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
(d) The Crosby Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the site named where the plutonium bomb would be tested for the Manhattan Project?

2. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?

3. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?

4. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

5. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?

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