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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?
(a) 5.
(b) 27.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

2. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?
(a) September, 1944.
(b) February, 1944.
(c) March, 1943.
(d) July, 1944.

3. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?
(a) Wendover, Utah.
(b) Juneau, Alaska.
(c) Los Alamos, New Mexico.
(d) Malvern, Nebraska.

4. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?
(a) Ruth Werner.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Anatoly Yatzkov.

5. Where did Harry Truman meet Joseph Stalin for the first time?
(a) Potsdam, Germany.
(b) London, England.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Zurich, Switzerland.

6. Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time of F.D.R.'s death?
(a) Harlan Fiske Stone.
(b) Joe Stevenson.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Bob Wilson.

7. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?
(a) Robert Serber's.
(b) Jens Poulsson's.
(c) Arne Kjelstrup's.
(d) Hans Bethe's.

8. By what name did Dorothy McKibben's potential employer introduce himself when he interviewed with her at a Santa Fe hotel in March of 1943?
(a) Mr. Anderson.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) Mr. Bradley.
(d) Mr. Werner.

9. Whom did Oppenheimer ask to spread a rumor about "electric rockets" in Santa Fe to distract from the reality of what was happening at Los Alamos?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) Robert and Charlotte Serber.
(d) Joe and Sarah Stevenson.

10. Who was Stalin's head of secret police in late 1944?
(a) Lavrenti Beria.
(b) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup.

11. What book of poetry was used in Ted Hall's secret letters to Saville Sax?
(a) Canterbury Tales.
(b) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(c) Leaves of Grass.
(d) Idylls of the King.

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

13. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?
(a) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(b) Robert Serber.
(c) Hans Bethe.
(d) Alexander Feklisov.

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

15. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?
(a) The Grumman Goblin.
(b) The B-29 bomber.
(c) The A-36 Apache.
(d) The Hawker Demon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?

2. How much money did Harry Gold hand over to David Greenglass for his information in 1945?

3. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?

4. What was the name of the estate in England where the German scientists were taken after the European war ended?

5. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?

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