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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1943.

2. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?
(a) Mark Oliphant.
(b) Otto Frisch.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Henry Tizard.

3. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Designer of the plutonium gun.
(c) Test pilot.
(d) Commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor.

4. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1943.

5. When do the Germans surrender at Stalingrad?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1943.

6. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?
(a) Bainbridge.
(b) Szilard.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Byrnes.

7. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?
(a) Fat Man.
(b) Number Two.
(c) Bock's Car.
(d) Orange Pumpkin.

8. In what state is the Hanford facility located?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Washington.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Alaska.

9. What is the name of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
(a) Mike.
(b) Little Boy.
(c) Enola Gay.
(d) Silverplate.

10. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?
(a) Norman Scott.
(b) H.G.Wells.
(c) Richard Rhodes.
(d) Gil Elliot.

11. What is the NDRC?
(a) The Nordic Data Review Committee.
(b) The National Defense Research Council.
(c) The National Defense Review Committee.
(d) The Nuclear Department of Research and Concern.

12. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?
(a) Oak Ridge.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) Hanford.

13. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?
(a) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Leo Sziland.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

14. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?
(a) Compton.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Bradbury.

15. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) Lyman Briggs.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(d) James Conant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drafts the historic directive releasing the atomic bomb for use?

2. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?

3. Who is Averell Harriman?

4. Where is Site X located?

5. Where does Operation Forager take place?

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