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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. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) August, 1942.
(b) September, 1944.
(c) July, 1943.
(d) November, 1943.

2. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) General Brehon Somervell.
(d) Colonel John Wilson.

3. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?
(a) Hans Bethe's.
(b) Arne Kjelstrup's.
(c) Jens Poulsson's.
(d) Robert Serber's.

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

5. What does the "OSS" stand for?
(a) Office of Strategic Services.
(b) Office of Social Services.
(c) Office of Soviet Services.
(d) Office of Systems Services.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hotel did Dorothy McKibben meet her potential employer to interview for a confidential job in March of 1943?

2. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?

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

4. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?

5. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How and why did the plot to kidnap Werner Heisenberg arise?

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

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

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

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