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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Chadwick.
(c) Groves.
(d) Bohr.

2. Who is Averell Harriman?
(a) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
(b) A physicist.
(c) An Army General in the Pacific.
(d) U.S. representative to the United Nations.

3. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?
(a) A mass spectrometer.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) Radar.
(d) The hydrogen bomb.

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

5. What indispensable item does Teller and his wife bring to Los Alamos?
(a) Lab books.
(b) Grand piano.
(c) Cycotron.
(d) His experimetnal data.

6. Who is the Chief of Security for Groves?
(a) Edward Jacobs.
(b) John Landsdale.
(c) John Robinson.
(d) Howard von Alben.

7. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) DuPont.
(b) IBM.
(c) Eastman Kodak.
(d) Boeing.

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

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

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

11. After the dropping of the bombs, Leo Szilard leaves nuclear physics and goes into what field of study?
(a) Biology.
(b) Experimental physics.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Medicine.

12. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Utah.
(c) California.
(d) Nevada.

13. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?
(a) Teller.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Szilard.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

3. When does the U.S. learn that Klaus Fuchs is a Russian spy?

4. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?

5. Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?

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