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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 the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?
(a) Kurt Diebner.
(b) Samuel Goudsmit.
(c) Lewis Strauss.
(d) Arne Kjelstrup.

2. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Samuel Goudsmit.
(b) Jens Poulsson.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's former girlfriend whom he met in San Francisco on June 14, 1943?
(a) Lise Meitner.
(b) Jean Tatlock.
(c) Melba Phillips.
(d) Ruth Werner.

4. Where did Harry Truman meet Joseph Stalin for the first time?
(a) Zurich, Switzerland.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Potsdam, Germany.
(d) London, England.

5. What ship carried the uranium for its trip to Tinian?
(a) The USS Manhattan.
(b) The USS Pittsburgh.
(c) The USS Cleveland.
(d) The USS Indianapolis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?

2. How much money did Harry Gold hand over to David Greenglass for his information in 1945?

3. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

4. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?

5. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Richard Feynman’s mission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee?

3. What was Dorothy McKibben’s job description at Los Alamos? What were her duties?

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

5. With whom was Carl Eifler replaced in the mission regarding Heisenberg? Why was he replaced?

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

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

8. Why was Colonel Paul Tibbets ordered to report to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1944?

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

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

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