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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. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1938.

2. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?
(a) 12 years of evidence.
(b) 20 years of evidence.
(c) 17 years of evidence.
(d) 4 years of evidence.

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

4. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
(a) New Paltz, New York.
(b) Princeton, New Jersey.
(c) Peconic, New York.
(d) New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?

2. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?

3. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?

4. What is the atomic number of uranium?

5. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the outcome of Haukelid and Poulsson’s mission in February of 1943?

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

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

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

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