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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term, in its original usage, describes a competition between two or more parties for the best armed forces?
(a) Sprint for bombs.
(b) Weapons marathon.
(c) Blasting dash.
(d) Arms race.

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

3. When did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?
(a) September 11, 1939.
(b) December 7, 1941.
(c) October 31, 1945.
(d) July 4, 1937.

4. When was Werner Heisenberg born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1884.

5. After the dissolution of the OSS, two of Moe's beloved supervisors, including who, resigned and planned to return to practicing law?
(a) John McGraw.
(b) Roy Spencer.
(c) William Donovan.
(d) John Kieran.

6. 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) Vienna.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Florence.

7. 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"?
(a) A. B. "Happy" Chandler, Sr.
(b) William Eckert.
(c) Ford Frick.
(d) Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

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

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

10. Edoardo Amaldi told Moe Berg that the Italians could not build an atomic bomb for what reason?
(a) The citizens were not behind them.
(b) The economic sanctions that were in place.
(c) Their scientists were not smart enough.
(d) They did not have adequate resources at their lab.

11. Who was the oldest son of Bernard and Rose Berg?
(a) Dr. Sam Berg.
(b) Dr. John Berg.
(c) Dr. Robert Berg.
(d) Dr. Alex Berg.

12. Who was the moderator of the radio quiz show which Moe Berg made guest appearances on in 1939?
(a) H.P. Robertson.
(b) Clifton Fadiman.
(c) Roy Spencer.
(d) John McGraw.

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

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

15. Following World War II, Werner Heisenberg was appointed director of what institution?
(a) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.
(b) The Einstein Institute of Physics.
(c) The Newtons School of Physics.
(d) The King Edward II Institute for Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Moe Berg die?

2. After visiting with Meitner, Moe was sent on a tour of the United States with who in Chapter 12, "Always Good Company"?

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

4. How much was Moe Berg stuck owing to the United States government for an unfulfilled contract after a film and stationary business went bankrupt in Chapter 13, "A Life Without Calendar"?

5. When Moe Berg joined the OIAA he left behind a baseball career that had lasted how many years?

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