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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) California.
(b) Nevada.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Utah.

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

3. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?
(a) February 1945.
(b) June 1944.
(c) October 1944.
(d) December 1944.

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

5. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?
(a) December 7, 1941.
(b) November 6, 1941.
(c) November 30, 1941.
(d) December 6, 1941.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Curtis LeMay.
(b) President Truman.
(c) Douglas MacArthur.
(d) Paul W. Tibbets.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1940, how long does the MAUD Committee think it takes its members to create an atomic weapon?

2. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?

3. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?

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

5. What is the name of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?

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