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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed an executive order disbanding the OSS in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?
(a) President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) President Harry Truman.
(d) President John F. Kennedy.

2. What physicist in Copenhagen was Moe Berg directed to meet with in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?
(a) Joliot-Curie.
(b) Aldo Icardi.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Theodore Von Karman.

3. Due to problems that the CIA had with Moe Berg's methods, his contract with them was not renewed in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1954.

4. When did the Cold War begin?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1943.

5. In Cleveland, Moe Berg stayed at the home of whom in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) Close friends.
(b) Distant cousins.
(c) Friends of friends.
(d) His brother.

6. What position did Moe Berg play for the Boston Red Sox?
(a) Center field.
(b) Pitcher.
(c) Catcher.
(d) 1st base.

7. Who was Moe Berg's driver in Italy in the summer of 1944?
(a) Paul Scherrer.
(b) Aldo Icardi.
(c) Joseph Grew.
(d) Walther Bothe.

8. The optical laboratory Moe Berg was directed to investigate in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy" was thought to be helping compress fissionable material for Germany's what?
(a) Atomic bombs.
(b) Plutonium bombs.
(c) Dirty bombs.
(d) Nuclear bombs.

9. Moe's boss with the OSS came to Italy and instructed Moe to investigate an optical laboratory where in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Genoa.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Florence.

10. In Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy," it was discovered that Werner Heisenberg was to be in Switzerland in when to give a lecture?
(a) Early August.
(b) Mid September.
(c) Late December.
(d) Mid June.

11. During what years was Nelson Rockefeller U.S. Vice President?
(a) 1977-1979.
(b) 1974-1977.
(c) 1969-1972.
(d) 1972-1974.

12. What was a unique variety of fascism that incorporated biological racism and antisemitism during WWII?
(a) Dudeism.
(b) Nazism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitolism.

13. When did the CIA offer Moe Berg a contract in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1945.

14. When was Rome liberated in World War II?
(a) September 2, 1944.
(b) July 7, 1944.
(c) June 10, 1944.
(d) June 4, 1944.

15. What consultant for the Arthur D. Little Company did Moe Berg meet in Boston in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) Roy Spencer.
(b) Joseph Grew.
(c) Harry Broley.
(d) Charles Owen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What radio quiz show was Moe Berg a guest on in 1939?

2. After his guest stint on a radio quiz show, who told Moe Berg, "Berg, in just thirty minutes you did more for baseball than I've done the entire time I've been commissioner"?

3. When did Moe Berg first make his way to Italy on a mission for the U.S. Government?

4. In New York, Moe enjoyed a friendship with what aeronautical engineer he met through Ferris in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?

5. What radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology advocates the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics?

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