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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) James Conant.
(b) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(c) Ernest Lawrence.
(d) Lyman Briggs.

4. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?
(a) Henry Tizard.
(b) Mark Oliphant.
(c) Leo Szilard.
(d) Otto Frisch.

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

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

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

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

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

10. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?
(a) January 1944.
(b) November 1943.
(c) June 1943.
(d) January 1943.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

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

3. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?

4. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?

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

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