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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?
(a) Oak Ridge facility.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) Hanford facility.

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

3. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) DuPont.
(b) Eastman Kodak.
(c) IBM.
(d) Boeing.

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

5. What indispensable item does Teller and his wife bring to Los Alamos?
(a) Cycotron.
(b) Grand piano.
(c) His experimetnal data.
(d) Lab books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Operation Barbarossa?

2. When do the Germans announce Hitler's suicide?

3. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

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

5. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?

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