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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does the crew who is training for delivering of the atomic bomb go for training with radar and flying over water?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Saipan.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Marshall Islands.

4. When does Enrico Fermi move to Los Alamos?
(a) February 1942.
(b) June 1943.
(c) September 1944.
(d) January 1944.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?
(a) Szilard.
(b) Bainbridge.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Byrnes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the Hanford facility located?

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

3. Where is the Trinity test site?

4. Who drafts the historic directive releasing the atomic bomb for use?

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

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