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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?
(a) He shot himself in the foot.
(b) He almost drowned in a river.
(c) He broke his arm climbing a fence.
(d) He shot himself in the arm.

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1929.

3. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) George Eltenton.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) Richard Brennan.

4. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?
(a) Mrs. Anderson.
(b) Mrs. Brewer.
(c) Mrs. Meitner.
(d) Mrs. Phillips.

5. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Lise Meitner.
(b) Lewis Strauss.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

2. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?

3. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?

4. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?

5. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Robert Oppenheimer’s childhood and education described in “Skinny Superhero”?

2. What led to Franklin Roosevelt’s discovery of German atomic research? Who wrote to the President and what was suggested?

3. Who was Lise Meitner and what role did she play in the discovery of nuclear fission?

4. How is Knut Haukelid described in the narrative? Where was he trained?

5. Who were Zalmond Franklin and Clarence Hiskey and how did they contribute to Soviet espionage?

6. What agreement was made between the U.S. President and British Prime Minister on June 19, 1942?

7. What was the first mission that Haukelid and Poulsson were assigned after training?

8. What was the name of the mission Haukelid and Poulsson set out on in February of 1943? How did they go about the mission?

9. How is Robert Oppenheimer characterized as a professor in “Skinny Superhero”?

10. What was the situation with the Vemork plant in February of 1943?

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