Bomb Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Steve Sheinkin
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Bomb Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Steve Sheinkin
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) Korea.
(d) Scotland.

2. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?
(a) General Brehon Somervell.
(b) Colonel Kenneth Nichols.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) General Leslie Groves.

3. How many workers were living in trailers around the erection of the secret plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by early 1944?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 20,000.

4. At what hotel did Dorothy McKibben meet her potential employer to interview for a confidential job in March of 1943?
(a) The Quartz.
(b) Casa Lorena.
(c) La Fonda.
(d) The Four Seasons.

5. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?
(a) The Crosby Theatre.
(b) The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.
(c) The Castillo Street Bridge.
(d) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?

2. Where was Knut Haukelid born?

3. On what date did Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves first visit the Los Alamos Ranch School to examine it as a site for testing?

4. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?

5. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?

(see the answer key)

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