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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 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time of F.D.R.'s death?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Harlan Fiske Stone.
(c) Joe Stevenson.
(d) Robert Serber.

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

3. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 40,000.

4. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) December 18, 1944.
(c) February 21, 1945.
(d) September 1, 1945.

5. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?
(a) Heidelbrg, Germany.
(b) Dresden, Germany.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the horse that Robert Oppenheimer kept at Los Alamos?

3. What was the name of the area at Los Alamos where Robert Oppenheimer lived?

4. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

5. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the Alsos mission evolve after Nazi Germany’s surrender?

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

5. How is the death of President Franklin Roosevelt described in “Falling Stars”?

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

7. What efforts were made to thwart rumors about the Los Alamos site?

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

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

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

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