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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 Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?
(a) The 219th Composite Group.
(b) The 509th Composite Group.
(c) The 109th Composite Group.
(d) The 49th Air Brigade.

2. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?
(a) General Leslie Groves.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.
(d) General Brehon Somervell.

3. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?
(a) General George Marshall.
(b) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.
(c) Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Major Robert Furman.

4. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) Special Training School No. 3.
(c) Laboratory Number 2.
(d) The Los Alamos Ranch School.

5. How heavy was the bomb that Haukelid planted on the ferry that was to transport the heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) 19 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) 14 pounds.
(d) 8 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?

2. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?

3. How far is Okinawa from the Japanese mainland?

4. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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