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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?
(a) Luis Alvarez.
(b) Jens Poulsson.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Robert Serber.

2. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?
(a) Hans Bethe's.
(b) Arne Kjelstrup's.
(c) Jens Poulsson's.
(d) Robert Serber's.

3. When General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?
(a) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(c) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.
(d) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.

4. On what date did Harry Gold arrive in Santa Fe to meet with Klaus Fuchs?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) July 12, 1945.
(c) June 2, 1945.
(d) February 21, 1945.

5. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Samuel Goudsmit.
(d) Robert Serber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?

2. Where was Knut Haukelid born?

3. What official statement was released regarding the blast from the plutonium bomb test at Los Alamos?

4. What was the name of the area from where William Laurence and the scientists observed the testing of the plutonium bomb?

5. Who was the Army Chief of Staff in late 1943?

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