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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. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Oslo.

2. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Henry Farmer.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Joe Stevenson.

3. 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) Joe and Sarah Stevenson.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Robert and Charlotte Serber.

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

5. Where was the second secret plant developed to produce U-235?
(a) Roswell, New Mexico.
(b) Hanford, Washington.
(c) Reno, Nevada.
(d) Malvern, Indiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. How heavy was the bomb that Haukelid planted on the ferry that was to transport the heavy water from the Vemork plant?

2. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?

3. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?

4. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?

5. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Oppenheimer expect to happen to the Manhattan Project after Germany’s surrender? Was he correct?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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