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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shortly after leaving the SSU and settling in his brother's home, Moe learned that his business partner in a film and stationary business called what had gone bankrupt?
(a) Lithoprint Manufacturing Company.
(b) Imagine Manufacturing Company.
(c) Cellomatic Manufacturing Company.
(d) Novelart Manufacturing Company.

2. Who did Moe Berg convince Lise Meitner to write a letter to while in Switzerland?
(a) Cliff Bolton.
(b) Walther Bothe.
(c) Dr. Sam Berg.
(d) Dr. Otto Hahn.

3. When did Moe Berg first make his way to Italy on a mission for the U.S. Government?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1940.

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

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

6. Moe's boss with the OSS instructed Moe to investigate an optical laboratory named what in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?
(a) The Galileo Company.
(b) The Rinaldi Company.
(c) The Ferrari Company.
(d) The DaVinci Company.

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

8. In Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar," Moe Berg became a regular at Princeton, arriving at the home of what old friend the night of the game and gaining an invitation to dinner and a place to stay for the night?
(a) W.J. Donovan.
(b) P.H. Truman.
(c) I.M. Levitt.
(d) H.P. Robertson.

9. Who was the wartime head of the OSS?
(a) Harry Broley.
(b) William Joseph Donovan.
(c) Robert Furman.
(d) Ted Lyons.

10. Who was the first Italian scientist on Moe Berg's list to visit in Rome in Chapter 11, "A Perfect Spy"?
(a) Dr. Otto Hahn.
(b) Edoardo Amaldi.
(c) Antonio Ferri.
(d) Aldo Icardi.

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

12. What President called for the formation of the OSS?
(a) Harry S. Truman.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

13. 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.

14. What was the name of the mission Moe Berg was assigned to with the objective of encouraging Italian scientists to come to America?
(a) AZUSA.
(b) AKORN.
(c) ALIAS.
(d) AKUMA.

15. Who died nine days after Moe Berg joined the OIAA?
(a) Nelson D. Rockefeller.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Bernard Berg.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his playing career ended, Moe Berg was a Red Sox coach in what years?

2. What civil engineer during World War II was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project?

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

4. Edoardo Amaldi told Moe Berg that the Germans were how far from perfecting the science of the atomic bomb?

5. After his assignment involving Heisenberg ended, Moe Berg was introduced to what director of the Physics Institute at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich?

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