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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1939, where is the only heavy water plant located?
(a) England.
(b) Norway.
(c) Germany.
(d) United States.

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

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

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

6. Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
(a) LeMay.
(b) Tibbets.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Grove.

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

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

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

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

11. Who says, "I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting."
(a) President Truman.
(b) Paul W. Tibbets.
(c) Douglas MacArthur.
(d) Curtis LeMay.

12. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?
(a) Radar.
(b) Cavity magnetron.
(c) Particle accelerator.
(d) Heavy water.

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

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

15. Where is the Trinity test site?
(a) Marshall Islands.
(b) Los Alamos, New Mexico.
(c) Nevada desert.
(d) Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Operation Forager take place?

2. What is Operation Barbarossa?

3. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?

4. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?

5. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?

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