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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When is the explosion of the first Russian atomic bomb?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1947.

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

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

8. In what state is the Hanford facility located?
(a) Alaska.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Washington.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Averell Harriman?

2. What is the NDRC?

3. Where does the crew who is training for delivering of the atomic bomb go for training with radar and flying over water?

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

5. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?

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