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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. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

2. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?
(a) The Castillo Street Bridge.
(b) The Crosby Theatre.
(c) The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.
(d) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

3. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?
(a) 27.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 5.

4. Whom did Oppenheimer ask to spread a rumor about "electric rockets" in Santa Fe to distract from the reality of what was happening at Los Alamos?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) Joe and Sarah Stevenson.
(d) Robert and Charlotte Serber.

5. Who was the Army Chief of Staff in late 1943?
(a) General George Marshall.
(b) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.
(c) General Brehon Somervell.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

2. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?

3. Who accompanied the uranium as it was shipped toward the destination of Tinian?

4. What book of poetry was used in Ted Hall's secret letters to Saville Sax?

5. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions did Harry Truman pose regarding the Manhattan Project in 1945?

2. What preparations were made prior to the testing of the first nuclear weapon?

3. How did the name “The Gadget” arise?

4. What was the objective of the Alsos mission with Heisenberg?

5. Who was Dorothy McKibben? How did she gain employment on the Manhattan Project?

6. How did the United States government respond to questions regarding the blast from the Trinity Test?

7. What conflict arose regarding Jean Tatlock between Groves and the Army CIC?

8. How did Colonel Carl Eifler respond to his mission regarding Heisenberg?

9. Where were the German scientists taken after the end of World War II in Europe?

10. How were the water barrels being transported from the Vemork plant in February of 1944? What was Haukelid’s mission?

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