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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the OSS become after its dissolution in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?
(a) The SSU.
(b) The USS.
(c) The USO.
(d) The ASU.

2. The OIAA courted Moe Berg in the spring of what year, often coming to him at the ballpark to discuss his possible role with them?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1935.

3. After his playing career ended, Moe Berg was a Red Sox coach in what years?
(a) 1944 and 1945.
(b) 1940 and 1941.
(c) 1938 and 1939.
(d) 1948 and 1949.

4. When was Ted Williams born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1918.

5. When the OSS was formed, it was styled after what intelligence operation in England?
(a) HR-3.
(b) MI-6.
(c) IP-5.
(d) SB-1.

6. What is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country?
(a) Pressured state.
(b) Associate state.
(c) Satellite state.
(d) Mirror state.

7. What young aeronautical engineer was Moe Berg directed to talk into moving to the United States in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?
(a) I.M. Levitt.
(b) Antonio Ferri.
(c) Aldo Icardi.
(d) Cliff Bolton.

8. In late 1944/early 1945, Moe Berg began reporting to the OSS office in Bern lead by whom?
(a) Allen Dulles.
(b) H.P. Robertson.
(c) Tony Calvert.
(d) Carl Eifler.

9. What theoretical physicist informed Moe Berg that many physicists made routine visits to Switzerland for conferences and lectures in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?
(a) Robert Furman.
(b) Walther Bothe.
(c) Gian Carlo Wick.
(d) Tony Calvert.

10. In New York, Moe enjoyed a friendship with what aeronautical engineer he met through Ferris in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?
(a) Harry Broley.
(b) Allen Dulles.
(c) Theodore Von Karman.
(d) Walther Bothe.

11. Ted Williams played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as what position for the Red Sox?
(a) 3rd baseman.
(b) 1st baseman.
(c) Center fielder.
(d) Left fielder.

12. How long was Dom DiMaggio's baseball career?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 10 months.
(d) 6 years.

13. 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?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Fascism.

14. AGARD was an agency of NATO that existed from 1952 to when?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1996.

15. How many seasons did Moe Berg play with the Boston Red Sox?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his time playing for the Boston Red Sox, Moe Berg averaged fewer than how many games per season?

2. After World War II began to resolve itself, Moe Berg was sent home and arrived in Newark on what date?

3. Moe's boss with the OSS came to Italy and instructed Moe to investigate an optical laboratory where in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?

4. What was the name of the mission Moe Berg was assigned to with the objective of encouraging Italian scientists to come to America?

5. Who was Moe Berg's Alsos's counterpart in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?

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