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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?
(a) Bradbury.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Compton.
(d) Lawrence.

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

3. Where does Operation Forager take place?
(a) The Pacific.
(b) Europe.
(c) United States.
(d) Russia.

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

5. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) An American nuclear physicist.
(b) A Japanese physicist.
(c) A British physicist.
(d) A Japanese diplomat.

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

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

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

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

10. Who drafts the historic directive releasing the atomic bomb for use?
(a) Tibbets.
(b) Groves.
(c) Byrnes.
(d) Truman.

11. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?
(a) Hanford.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Oak Ridge.
(d) Berkeley.

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

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

14. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?
(a) California.
(b) Utah.
(c) Nevada.
(d) New Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the NDRC?

2. Who is Averell Harriman?

3. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?

4. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?

5. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?

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