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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Berkeley.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. 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) Hawaii.
(c) Marshall Islands.
(d) Cuba.

13. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?
(a) President Truman.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Douglas MacArthur.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the Hanford facility located?

2. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?

3. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"

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

5. Where is the Trinity test site?

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