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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. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?
(a) Zurich, Switzerland.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

2. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?
(a) Because its initial offices were in Manhattan.
(b) Because Manhattan was the name of the man who developed the bomb.
(c) Because the first atomic tests were to be performed in Manhattan.
(d) Because "Manhattan" was code for "bomb."

3. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) September 18, 1942.
(c) October 21, 1939.
(d) May 22, 1942.

4. 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 broke his arm climbing a fence.
(b) He shot himself in the arm.
(c) He almost drowned in a river.
(d) He shot himself in the foot.

5. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?

2. Where was Knut Haukelid born?

3. How far did the British plane drop Poulsson's team from their intended drop target on the Vemork mission?

4. Near what town was the Vemork power plant located?

5. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the KGB feel about Robert Oppenheimer and his position at the Manhattan Project?

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

6. How was the compound at Los Alamos developed? Who came to the compound?

7. How does the author describe surveillance of Communists in the U.S. in “Rapid Rupture”?

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

9. What led the Soviets to believe that the United States was making progress toward atomic weaponry, according to the author in “Enormoz”?

10. Describe Otto Hahn’s experiment in December of 1938. What was discovered in Hahn’s experiment?

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