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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 Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

2. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) December 11, 1941.
(c) May 22, 1943.
(d) October 21, 1939.

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

4. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1941.

5. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?
(a) July 12, 1945.
(b) May 22, 1950.
(c) September 18, 1951.
(d) November 1, 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. When General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?

2. How much did Robert Oppenheimer weigh when he underwent an army physical prior to being appointed to the Manhattan Project?

3. Who informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?

4. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?

5. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Robert Oppenheimer come to learn about Otto Hahn’s work in Germany?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How would you describe Robert Oppenheimer’s loyalty to the U.S. in his work for the Manhattan Project?

10. How did Colonel Groves respond when his candidate for the leader of the Manhattan Project did not pass an army physical?

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