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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Moe Berg born?
(a) Portland, ME.
(b) Boston, MA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Columbus, OH.

2. What is an area of Paris named for the large central wholesale marketplace?
(a) Les Pourquoi.
(b) Les Halles.
(c) Les Enchanté.
(d) La Rive Gauche.

3. What was Moe Berg's major for which he earned a B.A. degree?
(a) Physics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Modern Languages.
(d) Mathematics.

4. What two baseball clubs approached Moe Berg after his college graduation?
(a) The Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs.
(b) The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Robins.
(c) The Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox.
(d) The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.

5. In what year did Bernard Berg leave Ukraine to head west?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1890
(d) 1894.

6. Who established and headed the OIAA?
(a) Nelson D. Rockefeller.
(b) Herb Hunter.
(c) John Kieran.
(d) William Donovan.

7. With what team did Moe Berg sign after graduating college?
(a) The Chicago Cubs.
(b) The Chicago White Sox.
(c) The Brooklyn Robins.
(d) The Detroit Tigers.

8. What assistant managing editor of the New York Times received letters from someone claiming to be Moe Berg in the Prologue?
(a) Rose Tashke.
(b) Walther Bothe.
(c) Ted Lyons.
(d) Allan Siegal.

9. What was a royal palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed in the upheaval during the suppression of the Paris Commune?
(a) The Paris Palace.
(b) The Seine Palace.
(c) The Tuileries Palace.
(d) The Palace le France.

10. What does OIAA stand for?
(a) Office of Industry and Agriculture.
(b) Open Information Act of America.
(c) Oil Industry Association of America.
(d) Office of Inter-American Affairs.

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

12. With what respected Wall Street law firm did Moe Berg take a position in 1930?
(a) Scofield and Newton.
(b) Bloomberg and Rodgers.
(c) Ernster and Robbins.
(d) Satterlee and Canfield.

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

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

15. What does RBI stand for?
(a) Really bad injury.
(b) Run batted in.
(c) Robbed by infielder.
(d) Runs by inning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. President established the military order of the Office of Strategic Services?

2. What refers to a fielder's ability to move from his position to field a ball in play in baseball?

3. How old was Moe Berg when he begged his mother to let him start school?

4. What sports columnist was credited with creating the public image of Moe Berg in Chapter 1, "The Public Berg: Professor Moe"?

5. When did the Louvre Museum open?

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