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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1944.

2. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?
(a) November 6, 1941.
(b) December 7, 1941.
(c) December 6, 1941.
(d) November 30, 1941.

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

4. When does President Roosevelt die?
(a) March 30, 1945.
(b) April 1, 1945.
(c) April 10, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

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

6. Where is Site X located?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) California.
(c) Washington.
(d) Tennessee.

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

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

9. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

10. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?
(a) Bush.
(b) Stimson.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Groves.

11. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Radar.
(b) Sonar.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Atomic bomb.

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

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

14. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) England's plans to invade Germany.
(b) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.
(c) Germany's invasion of Russia.
(d) A secret Russian physics laboratory.

15. When does the U.S. learn that Klaus Fuchs is a Russian spy?
(a) December 1945.
(b) January 1948.
(c) February 1950.
(d) March 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?

2. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

3. When do the Germans surrender at Stalingrad?

4. When do the Germans announce Hitler's suicide?

5. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?

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