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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. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?

2. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?

3. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

4. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?

5. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Lise Meitner and what role did she play in the discovery of nuclear fission?

5. What agreement was made between the U.S. President and British Prime Minister on June 19, 1942?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the Trinity Test. When did this test occur? Who was present, and where were the observers located? How was the test recorded? What were the results of the test?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Colonel Carl Eifler’s involvement in the Manhattan Project. What mission was Eifler given? Why was he replaced in this mission? How did he respond to being replaced?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. How many structures were damaged as a result of the blast? How many people were killed, both immediately and as a result of radiation poisoning? What impact did this attack have on the public’s perception of atomic weapons?

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