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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?
(a) Szilard.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Teller.

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

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

5. In what state is the Hanford facility located?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Washington.

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

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

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

9. Who is Averell Harriman?
(a) U.S. representative to the United Nations.
(b) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
(c) An Army General in the Pacific.
(d) A physicist.

10. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Japan.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?

2. Where does Operation Forager take place?

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

4. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?

5. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?

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