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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Moe Berg when he was assigned the Heisenberg kidnapping mission?
(a) 50.
(b) 29.
(c) 33.
(d) 41.

2. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?
(a) Lewis Strauss.
(b) Samuel Goudsmit.
(c) Kurt Diebner.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup.

3. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?
(a) 45.
(b) 33.
(c) 50.
(d) 39.

4. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) September, 1944.
(b) August, 1942.
(c) July, 1943.
(d) November, 1943.

5. What was the name of the estate in England where the German scientists were taken after the European war ended?
(a) Farm Hall.
(b) Werner House.
(c) The Icehouse.
(d) Faulkner Hall.

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

7. Where was Paul Tibbets ordered to go to meet with Air Force General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?
(a) Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(b) Fort Bragg, California.
(c) Spokane, Washington.
(d) Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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

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

10. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?
(a) General Brehon Somervell.
(b) Colonel John Wilson.
(c) Bob Wilson.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

11. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(b) Colonel John Wilson.
(c) Major Robert Furman.
(d) General George Marshall.

12. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?
(a) He was a professional football player.
(b) He was a psychiatrist.
(c) He was a professional baseball player.
(d) He was a professional basketball player.

13. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?
(a) 51.
(b) 35.
(c) 33.
(d) 40.

14. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?
(a) George Eltenton.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Joe Stevenson.

15. Where was Harry Truman a senator in early 1944?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom did Knut Haukelid spend the winter in the mountains of Norway after the Vemork attack?

3. On what date did Harry Gold arrive in Santa Fe to meet with Klaus Fuchs?

4. 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?

5. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?

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