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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?
(a) Commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Test pilot.
(d) Designer of the plutonium gun.

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

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

7. After the dropping of the bombs, Leo Szilard leaves nuclear physics and goes into what field of study?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Biology.
(c) Experimental physics.
(d) Medicine.

8. 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) Curtis LeMay.
(c) President Truman.
(d) Paul W. Tibbets.

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

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

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

12. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?
(a) Norman Scott.
(b) Richard Rhodes.
(c) H.G.Wells.
(d) Gil Elliot.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?

2. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

3. When does President Roosevelt die?

4. Who is the Chief of Security for Groves?

5. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?

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