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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 was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?

2. What ship carried the uranium for its trip to Tinian?

3. How many barrels of heavy water were loaded onto the ferry to be transported from the Vemork plant when Haukelid rigged a bomb on the ferry?

4. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?

5. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why did the plot to kidnap Werner Heisenberg arise?

2. What questions did Harry Truman pose regarding the Manhattan Project in 1945?

3. What conflict arose regarding Jean Tatlock between Groves and the Army CIC?

4. What was Dorothy McKibben’s job description at Los Alamos? What were her duties?

5. How did the United States government respond to questions regarding the blast from the Trinity Test?

6. Where were the German scientists taken after the end of World War II in Europe?

7. How did the residents in the surrounding areas of Los Alamos react to the project there when it began?

8. Who was William Laurence? Why was he in attendance at the Trinity Test?

9. What was Richard Feynman’s mission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee?

10. What preparations were made prior to the testing of the first nuclear weapon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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