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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Stevenson's cover occupation?
(a) Ambulance driver.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Passport control officer.
(d) Mechanic.

2. What were the Americans doing in the field of codes?
(a) Trying to teach the Navajo codes.
(b) Trying to break Japanese code.
(c) Changing the nature of ciphers.
(d) Working on a unbreakable code.

3. What did Stevenson establish in Bermuda?
(a) A place for him to relax sometimes.
(b) An orphanage for the children whose parents are killed in air raids on London.
(c) A station similar to Bletchley.
(d) A top secret atomic bomb development center.

4. Of what group were the woman part of in training at Camp X?
(a) STAR.
(b) FANY.
(c) WACLE.
(d) CANWAC.

5. What shook Britain from its complacency?
(a) The destruction of the heavy water facility.
(b) Germany's invasion of Portugal.
(c) Russia's invasion of Norway.
(d) Germany's invasion of Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the network of amateur Swede code breakers intercept?

2. What was already in place when Hitler took the Channel Islands?

3. What could Stevenson see as he inspected German factories?

4. Why couldn't Stevenson force Roosevelt's hand to declare war?

5. What was Hitler's invasion of Russia code named?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Heydrich try to accomplish by his party in New York City?

2. How was it evident that the United States was headed for war?

3. Discuss Camp X.

4. Where did the King and Queen of England go and what did the King make clear?

5. What did Stevenson learn from his network in Sweden?

6. How was intelligence work in England and the United States developing during the time just before the outbreak of WWII?

7. How did Stevenson and Donovan try to delay Hitler's invasion of Russia?

8. What efforts were being made in the field of intelligence and codes among countries that would eventually be at war?

9. What was the Phony War?

10. Give a few facts about William Stevenson.

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