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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. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?

2. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

3. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?

4. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?

5. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What led to Harry Gold’s involvement in Soviet espionage? Who solicited Gold to inform for the Soviets?

5. How did the KGB feel about Robert Oppenheimer and his position at the Manhattan Project?

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

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

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

9. What led to Robert Oppenheimer’s interest and involvement in politics?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Colonel Paul Tibbets and how was he involved in the Manhattan Project? What was Tibbets’s history and skill level? What was the mission Tibbets was given?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the public perceptions of the site at Los Alamos. How did the people in the surrounding communities react to the influx of scientists and military personnel in the area? What rumors emerged? How did the government respond to these rumors?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the education and career of Igor Kurchatov. What was Kurchatov’s position in the Soviet Union during World War II? What developments occurred through Kurchatov?

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