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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arranged for three players to go to Japan to teach baseball seminars at Japanese universities during the winter of 1932?
(a) Clifton Fadiman.
(b) Theodore Von Karman.
(c) Antonio Ferri.
(d) Herb Hunter.

2. When did Moe Berg receive his his LL.B. degree?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1941.

3. What starting catcher went down in the 1932 season, allowing Moe Berg to step in?
(a) Edoardo Amaldi.
(b) Pyotr Kapitsa.
(c) Roy Spencer.
(d) John Kieran.

4. When did the Senators give Moe Berg his unconditional release?
(a) July 4, 1936.
(b) June 17, 1933.
(c) July 25, 1934.
(d) August 1, 1939.

5. With what batting average did Moe Berg finish the 1930 season?
(a) .255.
(b) .569.
(c) .335.
(d) .115.

6. In what year did Moe Berg begin playing professional baseball?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1925.

7. Where did Bernard Berg begin working in New York after immigrating?
(a) A factory.
(b) A laundry.
(c) The docks.
(d) A hospital.

8. How old was Moe Berg when he begged his mother to let him start school?
(a) 5.
(b) 3 and 1/2.
(c) 8.
(d) 2 and 1/2.

9. What CIA museum curator idolizes Moe Berg as described in the Prologue?
(a) Linda McCarthy.
(b) Joseph Grew.
(c) I.M. Levitt.
(d) Edoardo Amaldi.

10. Who did the Washington Senators lose to in the 1933 World Series?
(a) The New York Giants.
(b) The Chicago Cubs.
(c) The Chicago White Sox.
(d) The Boston Red Sox.

11. On his second Japan trip, Moe Berg convinced Babe Ruth that he learned Japanese in what amount of time?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 10 days.

12. What was Moe Berg's batting average at the end of the season of 1933?
(a) .219.
(b) .299.
(c) .253.
(d) .185.

13. What U.S. President established the military order of the Office of Strategic Services?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Gerald Ford.

14. From what village in the Ukraine was Bernard Berg?
(a) Zaporizhia.
(b) Kharkiv.
(c) Dnipropetrovsk.
(d) Kippinya.

15. How many games did Moe Berg play in the 1931 season?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picked up Moe Berg after his unconditional release from the Cleveland Indians?

2. When was OIAA established?

3. During an exhibition game against what team did Moe Berg tear a knee ligament?

4. What two players other than Moe Berg went to Japan to teach baseball seminars at Japanese universities during the winter of 1932?

5. In what year did Moe Berg graduate college, earning a B.A. degree?

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