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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 told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?

2. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

3. What was the real name of the man that interviewed Dorothy McKibben for a job in Santa Fe in March of 1943?

4. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the results of the Trinity Test described in the narrative?

2. How did the name “The Gadget” arise?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the Alsos mission evolve after Nazi Germany’s surrender?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What led Klaus Fuchs to inform to the Soviets during World War II? Where was Fuchs born? What were his political views? What happened to Fuchs after the war ended?

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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