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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) May 22, 1915.
(b) July 7, 1917.
(c) March 29, 1908.
(d) December 11, 1910.

2. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Oslo, Norway.

3. Upon landing on the Vemork mission, how long did Poulsson tell his team they had to "reconnoiter the plant, get information on the German guards, and check on the landing site"?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

4. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?
(a) 26.
(b) 28.
(c) 32.
(d) 19.

5. 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) Scott Miller.
(c) John Wilson.
(d) Henry Stimson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?

3. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What led to Robert Oppenheimer’s interest and involvement in politics?

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

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

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