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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. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?

2. Where was physicist Neils Bohr from?

3. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?

4. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

5. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were Zalmond Franklin and Clarence Hiskey and how did they contribute to Soviet espionage?

2. What was the outcome of Haukelid and Poulsson’s mission in February of 1943?

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

4. How did Robert Oppenheimer come to learn about Otto Hahn’s work in Germany?

5. How would you describe Robert Oppenheimer’s loyalty to the U.S. in his work for the Manhattan Project?

6. What were the results of Enrico Fermi’s experiments at the University of Chicago?

7. How are Robert Oppenheimer’s childhood and education described in “Skinny Superhero”?

8. What happened when the FBI searched Harry Gold’s room in the Prologue to Bomb?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the development at Los Alamos. How many scientists resided at the compound that was built there? What resources were available for their research? Why was this location selected?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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