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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Operation Barbarossa?

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

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

4. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

5. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?

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