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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) President Truman.
(d) Paul W. Tibbets.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the NDRC?

3. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?

4. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?

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

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