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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?
(a) George Marshall.
(b) President Truman.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Douglas MacArthur.

4. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?
(a) June 1944.
(b) December 1944.
(c) February 1945.
(d) October 1944.

5. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

6. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?
(a) James Conant.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Mark Oliphant.
(d) Henry Tizard.

7. Where does the crew who is training for delivering of the atomic bomb go for training with radar and flying over water?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Marshall Islands.
(c) Saipan.
(d) Hawaii.

8. When does Enrico Fermi move to Los Alamos?
(a) February 1942.
(b) September 1944.
(c) June 1943.
(d) January 1944.

9. 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) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Leo Sziland.

10. Who wi the pilot of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?
(a) Sweeney.
(b) LeMay.
(c) Tibbets.
(d) Marshall.

11. What is the primary target for the second atomic bomb?
(a) Nagasaki.
(b) Kyushu.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Osaka.

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

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

14. When do the Germans invade Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?
(a) May, 1940.
(b) January, 1939.
(c) June, 1939.
(d) February, 1940.

15. Where does Operation Forager take place?
(a) The Pacific.
(b) Russia.
(c) Europe.
(d) United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Operation Barbarossa?

2. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

3. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?

4. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?

5. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?

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