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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Capitalism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Fascism.

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

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

4. Werner Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to what?
(a) Qualitative mechanics.
(b) Quantitative mechanics.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Quarter mechanics.

5. What was Moe Berg given to commit suicide with after he assassinated Werner Heisenberg?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A razor blade.
(c) A cyanide tablet.
(d) Dynamite.

6. What is a war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly?
(a) War of substitution.
(b) Partner war.
(c) War of subordinates.
(d) Proxy war.

7. Moe Berg was sent by the OSS in what year to see Lise Meitner in Switzerland?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.

8. 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?
(a) Harry Broley.
(b) Ted Lyons.
(c) Allan Siegal.
(d) Robert Furman.

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

10. 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) Charles Owen.
(c) Joseph Grew.
(d) Harry Broley.

11. 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) Satellite state.
(b) Associate state.
(c) Pressured state.
(d) Mirror state.

12. How many times was Moe Berg a guest appearance on a popular radio quiz show before never returning?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

13. Moe Berg arrived in Rome how long after it was liberated in 1944?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 days.

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

15. What was the batting average of Ted Williams?
(a) .344.
(b) .555.
(c) .244.
(d) .389.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edoardo Amaldi told Moe Berg that the Italians could not build an atomic bomb for what reason?

2. Due to problems that the CIA had with Moe Berg's methods, his contract with them was not renewed in what year?

3. When did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?

4. What did the OSS become after its dissolution in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?

5. When did the CIA offer Moe Berg a contract in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?

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