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

2. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?
(a) July, 1940.
(b) April, 1940.
(c) June, 1941.
(d) May, 1939.

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

4. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1936.

5. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?
(a) The University of Bristol.
(b) Zurich University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?

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

3. What alias did Ruth Werner use in Oxford, England?

4. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?

5. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was chosen to be the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project in 1942? What reservations were expressed regarding this individual?

2. What led to Harry Gold’s involvement in Soviet espionage? Who solicited Gold to inform for the Soviets?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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