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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. On what date was the first meeting of the physicists at the Los Alamos Ranch School?
(a) September 18, 1942.
(b) April 15, 1943.
(c) November 16, 1942.
(d) October 21, 1943.

7. How many barrels of heavy water were loaded onto the ferry to be transported from the Vemork plant when Haukelid rigged a bomb on the ferry?
(a) 20 barrels.
(b) 50 barrels.
(c) 40 barrels.
(d) 70 barrels.

8. Who was the Army Counter-Intelligence officer that questioned Paul Tibbets before he met with General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?
(a) Colonel John Wilson.
(b) Colonel Boris Pash.
(c) Colonel John Lansdale.
(d) Major Robert Furman.

9. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Korea.
(c) Norway.
(d) France.

10. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Robert Serber.
(b) Samuel Goudsmit.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Jens Poulsson.

11. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.
(d) General Leslie Groves.

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

13. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?
(a) September 18, 1944.
(b) April 15, 1943.
(c) December 18, 1944.
(d) November 16, 1945.

14. 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. Bradley.
(c) Mr. Werner.
(d) Mr. Smith.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

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

5. Where was the second secret plant developed to produce U-235?

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