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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?
(a) The anticipated atomic bomb.
(b) The anticipated hydrogen bomb.
(c) The new cyclotron.
(d) The megatron accelerator.

15. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?
(a) French.
(b) Russians.
(c) Americans.
(d) British.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

3. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?

4. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?

5. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?

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