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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Japan.

14. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?
(a) Oak Ridge facility.
(b) Hanford facility.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) Berkeley.

15. What is Alsos?
(a) The American League for Southern Officers.
(b) The American League Sons of Soldiers.
(c) A security unit established by Groves.
(d) A nickname for Los Alamos.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?

2. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?

3. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?

4. When does President Roosevelt die?

5. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?

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