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

2. On what date did Harry Gold arrive in Santa Fe to meet with Klaus Fuchs?
(a) June 2, 1945.
(b) February 21, 1945.
(c) July 12, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

3. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?
(a) George Eltenton.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Joe Stevenson.
(d) Henry Stimson.

4. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?
(a) The Crosby Theatre.
(b) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
(c) The Castillo Street Bridge.
(d) The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?

2. Where did Harry Truman meet Joseph Stalin for the first time?

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

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

5. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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