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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. When was Harry Gold born?
(a) July 7, 1917.
(b) December 11, 1910.
(c) March 29, 1908.
(d) May 22, 1915.

2. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Labor Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

4. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?
(a) George Eltenton.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) John Wilson.
(d) Scott Miller.

5. How far did the British plane drop Poulsson's team from their intended drop target on the Vemork mission?
(a) 45 miles away.
(b) 65 miles away.
(c) 10 miles away.
(d) 100 miles away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?

2. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?

3. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?

4. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?

5. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the results of Enrico Fermi’s experiments at the University of Chicago?

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

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

7. What happened when the FBI searched Harry Gold’s room in the Prologue to Bomb?

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

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

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

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