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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?
(a) British.
(b) Russians.
(c) French.
(d) Americans.

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

3. What is the primary target for the second atomic bomb?
(a) Kyushu.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Nagasaki.
(d) Osaka.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Trinity test site?

2. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?

3. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

4. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

5. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?

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