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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. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

2. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?

3. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?

4. Where was Harry Truman a senator in early 1944?

5. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the death of President Franklin Roosevelt described in “Falling Stars”?

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

6. Who was Dorothy McKibben? How did she gain employment on the Manhattan Project?

7. Who was Theodore Hall? How did Hall become involved in the Manhattan Project?

8. How did Colonel Carl Eifler respond to his mission regarding Heisenberg?

9. Why was Colonel Paul Tibbets ordered to report to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1944?

10. What efforts were made to thwart rumors about the Los Alamos site?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of the Manhattan Project today. What is the status of the United States’ nuclear weapons program? What finally brought about an end to the Cold War? What are the repercussions seen today due to the development of the atomic bomb? Do you think it was worth it? Why or why not?

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

Describe Theodore Hall and his involvement with the Manhattan Project. How did Hall become involved with Soviet espionage? What information did Hall leak to the Soviets? What became of Hall after the war?

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