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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 Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?
(a) The 219th Composite Group.
(b) The 109th Composite Group.
(c) The 49th Air Brigade.
(d) The 509th Composite Group.

2. What was the name of the ferry boat that the Germans were using to transport heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) The Vesper.
(b) The Hydro.
(c) The Tiger.
(d) The Phantom.

3. 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.

4. 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) 19.
(d) 16.

5. What official statement was released regarding the blast from the plutonium bomb test at Los Alamos?
(a) There was a power explosion at the central power agency for Albuquerque.
(b) There has been an attack by the Japanese on American soil.
(c) The explosive dump at the Alamogordo Air Base has blown up.
(d) The Santa Fe railroad derailed and caused an oil leak.

6. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?
(a) 200 miles.
(b) 140 miles.
(c) 25 miles.
(d) 340 miles.

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

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

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

10. How many people were aboard the ferry as it transported heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) 72.
(b) 53.
(c) 36.
(d) 59.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?

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

3. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?

4. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?

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

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