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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was the second secret plant developed to produce U-235?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Hanford, Washington.
(c) Roswell, New Mexico.
(d) Malvern, Indiana.

4. With whom did Knut Haukelid spend the winter in the mountains of Norway after the Vemork attack?
(a) Klaus Fuchs.
(b) Richard Brennan.
(c) Jens Poulsson.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup.

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

6. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?
(a) Cinder.
(b) Chico.
(c) Ella.
(d) Jackson.

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

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

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

10. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?
(a) December 18, 1944.
(b) June 19, 1944.
(c) October 8, 1943.
(d) February 21, 1945.

11. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) December 18, 1944.
(c) February 21, 1945.
(d) September 1, 1945.

12. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(c) Laboratory Number 2.
(d) Special Training School No. 3.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Moe Berg to attend a lecture by Werner Heisenberg for his mission?

2. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?

3. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?

4. How many people were aboard the ferry as it transported heavy water from the Vemork plant?

5. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?

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