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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) James Conant.
(c) Henry Tizard.
(d) Mark Oliphant.

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

9. What is the primary target for the second atomic bomb?
(a) Osaka.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) Kyushu.
(d) Tokyo.

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

11. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Radar.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Sonar.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?

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

4. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?

5. When is the explosion of the first Russian atomic bomb?

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