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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

2. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?

3. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?

4. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?

5. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Franklin Roosevelt’s discovery of German atomic research? Who wrote to the President and what was suggested?

2. How does the author describe surveillance of Communists in the U.S. in “Rapid Rupture”?

3. Who was chosen to be the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project in 1942? What reservations were expressed regarding this individual?

4. What was the situation with the Vemork plant in February of 1943?

5. How is Robert Oppenheimer characterized as a professor in “Skinny Superhero”?

6. What led the Soviets to believe that the United States was making progress toward atomic weaponry, according to the author in “Enormoz”?

7. How is Knut Haukelid described in the narrative? Where was he trained?

8. Describe Otto Hahn’s experiment in December of 1938. What was discovered in Hahn’s experiment?

9. How did Colonel Groves respond when his candidate for the leader of the Manhattan Project did not pass an army physical?

10. What was the name of the mission Haukelid and Poulsson set out on in February of 1943? How did they go about the mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of Enrico Fermi’s Chicago Pile-1. What were the objectives of Fermi’s experiment? What were the results? How did these results contribute to the Manhattan Project?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Richard Feynman’s role with the Manhattan Project. Why was Feynman considered a troublemaker? What assignment was he given in Oak Ridge, Tennessee? How did he go about fulfilling his objective?

Essay Topic 3

What led Klaus Fuchs to inform to the Soviets during World War II? Where was Fuchs born? What were his political views? What happened to Fuchs after the war ended?

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