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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 was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) Laboratory Number 2.

2. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(b) Lt. Colonel John Wilson.
(c) General Brehon Somervell.
(d) Lt. Colonel Robert Serber.

3. What did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Milk.
(c) Sulphuric acid.
(d) Honey.

4. What was the name of the area at Los Alamos where Robert Oppenheimer lived?
(a) Desert Row.
(b) Bathtub Row.
(c) Clubhouse Row.
(d) Classroom row.

5. Who was Stalin's head of secret police in late 1944?
(a) Arne Kjelstrup.
(b) Lavrenti Beria.
(c) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(d) Samuel Goudsmit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?

3. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?

4. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

5. How many people were saved by a rescue boat when the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant was bombed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What information was passed to the KGB via Ted Hall and Saville Sax in December of 1944?

4. How are the results of the Trinity Test described in the narrative?

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

6. How did the residents in the surrounding areas of Los Alamos react to the project there when it began?

7. Who was William Laurence? Why was he in attendance at the Trinity Test?

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

9. Who was Theodore Hall? How did Hall become involved in the Manhattan Project?

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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