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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 informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?

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

3. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?

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

5. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Describe the first meeting of the scientists at Los Alamos. Who led the meeting? What was discussed? Who was present? What new ideas emerged during this conference?

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