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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) A Japanese physicist.
(b) A Japanese diplomat.
(c) An American nuclear physicist.
(d) A British physicist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

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

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

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

5. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?

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