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This test consists of 5 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) 1940.
(d) 1941.

2. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?
(a) Fat Man.
(b) Bock's Car.
(c) Orange Pumpkin.
(d) Number Two.

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

4. Where does the crew who is training for delivering of the atomic bomb go for training with radar and flying over water?
(a) Saipan.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Marshall Islands.

5. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?
(a) Bush.
(b) Groves.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Stimson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When do the Germans surrender at Stalingrad?

3. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?

4. What is the primary target for the second atomic bomb?

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

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