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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Americans doing in the field of codes?

2. How did Donovan delay Hitler's invasion?

3. In what was the Black Chamber involved?

4. Who did the Brits warn about Hitler's plans?

5. Where was an intelligence leak found?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William Stevenson get into the field of communications?

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

3. What was taking place in Germany in the early 1920s and how does that influence Stevenson?

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

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

6. How were reports sent out from Bermuda?

7. What began on July 10,1940, and how does Britain respond?

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

9. What did Roosevelt realize about Germany and its system of codes?

10. What did Stevenson want of Roosevelt, and why was Roosevelt dragging his feet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Churchill appoints Stevenson the director of His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Services and gives him a great deal of latitude in performing his duties. The organization was known as the BSC or British Security Coordination and it established headquarters in New York City. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think the BSC chooses to headquarter in New York City? Does it seem like a good choice to you? Why or why not.

2. Do you think the United States would tolerate an intelligence-gathering organization from another country to operate freely and openly today? Why or why not? What if it were an ally in a wartime situation?

3. What do you think were the advantages and disadvantages of having the BSC headquartered in New York City?

Essay Topic 2

Without Adolf Hitler's rise to power, WWII may never have occurred--at least on the European front; therefore, an understanding of the state of Germany at that time is essential to understanding many of the references in the book. Discuss the following:

1. Research and write an informative essay on the state of Germany during the 2 decades prior to the outbreak of WWII. What is the economy like? What are the major political parties? What do they stand for? What is the make-up of the German society as far as religious, racial and class?

Essay Topic 3

There is a time of one-hundred-and-fifty days that was known as the "Phony War." This consisted of communications between Churchill, coded "Naval Person" and Roosevelt coded "POTUS." Discuss the following:

1. Research the "Phony War" and write a brief informative essay about how it affected Great Britian, France, Germany and the United States.

2. Do you think anything could have been done during the Phony War to have averted a world war?

3. What event(s) precipitated the phony war into the real war? At this point, was war inevitable? Why or why not.

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