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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 estate in England where the German scientists were taken after the European war ended?
(a) Farm Hall.
(b) The Icehouse.
(c) Werner House.
(d) Faulkner Hall.

2. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) Compana Hill.
(c) Trinity.
(d) Bathtub Row.

3. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 50.
(b) 1 out of 300.
(c) 1 out of 10.
(d) 1 out of 130.

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

5. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?
(a) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Ruth Werner.
(d) Samuel Goudsmit.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Knut Haukelid spend the winter in the mountains of Norway after the Vemork attack?

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

3. What was the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1943?

4. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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